Ogler
/ˈoʊɡlər/noun
A person who looks at someone with obvious or inappropriate sexual interest.
Did you know?“Ogle” entered English as 18th-century slang from Germanic forms meaning “to eye,” linking the modern act of staring to the ancient word for “eye.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₃ekʷ-
“Eye; to see”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*augōn
“Eye”
Old High German
OHG
ouga
“Eye”
Early Modern German
German
äugeln
“To make eyes at; to ogle”
18th Century
English
ogle
“To look at someone amorously or impertinently”
Modern English
English
ogler
“A person who ogles”