Ogle vs Inspect - What's the difference?
ogle | inspect | Related terms |
(intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
* Dryden
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
To view and examine officially.
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Ogle is a related term of inspect.
As verbs the difference between ogle and inspect
is that ogle is (intransitive) to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously while inspect is to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.As a noun ogle
is an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.ogle
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* (Northern England)Verb
(ogl)- And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.
Anagrams
* ----inspect
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* enspectVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}