“Lorgner” derives from the Old French “lorgne”, meaning “who squints” This is the origin of the confusion between “squinting” and “ogling” “Ogle” took on a gallant, even licentious, connotation in the 17th century. To ogle is to “look at someone, something surreptitiously, out of the corner of the eye, with envy.
[HIGHLIGHTS] “Ogle at” or “eye at”: don’t make the mistake anymore!
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