Ogling vs Looking - What's the difference?
ogling | looking |
Action of the verb to ogle .
* Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
* 1988 September 12, New York Magazine , page 226
(obsolete) The act of one who looks; a glance.
(obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
* Chaucer
As nouns the difference between ogling and looking
is that ogling is action of the verb to ogle while looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.As verbs the difference between ogling and looking
is that ogling is while looking is .ogling
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*looking
English
Verb
(head)George Goodchild
- Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
Derived terms
* good-looking * looking glassNoun
(en noun)- All dreary was his cheer and his looking .