Ogre
['əʊgə] or ['oɡɚ]
Definition
(n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spectre, goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear, POKER, BUGABOO, frightful object.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spectre, goblin, hobgoblin, , bugbear,[See SPECTRE]
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Definition
n. a man-eating monster or giant of fairy tales:—fem. O′gress.—adj. O′greish.
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Examples
- Ogre that he was, he spoke like an epicure. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You might suppose him to be an ogre from what he says, and I believe he has the reputation of one with some people. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Do you suppose I eat like an ogre or a ghoul, that you dread being the companion of my repast? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To hear her speak of you, her protectress, her mother, would bring tears to the eyes of ogres. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We might have been a party of Ogres, the conversation assumed such a sanguine complexion. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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