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Ogle vs Behold - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between ogle and behold

is that ogle is to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously while behold is to see, or to look at.

As a noun ogle

is an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.

ogle

English

Alternative forms

* (Northern England)

Verb

(ogl)
  • (intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
  • * Dryden
    • And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    behold

    English

    Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----