noun an eye 20.
verb to listen; Ogle the gadgie mangan. [Listen to the house dweller talking.] 20.
verb to look 20. etymology: English ogle ‘an eye; rare and archaic’; McCormick 'A Tinkler says pyre and ogle are the older Cant words for look and listen.’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies note:
Lexicon Balitronicum (1811) and Grose and Egan (1823) both attest this form.