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Ogle vs Boggle - What's the difference?

ogle | boggle |

As verbs the difference between ogle and boggle

is that ogle is to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously while boggle is to be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.

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

    * ----

    boggle

    English

    Verb

    (boggl)
  • To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
    • He boggled at the surprising news.
    The mind boggles .
  • * Barrow
    • Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
  • * Glanvill
    • We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
  • To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
    • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
    The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
  • (US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.
  • (obsolete) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
    • (Howell)

    Derived terms

    * mindboggling