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ogre
/ˈəʊ.ɡə/
noun 2name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
belligerent, big, crude, green, green, hungry, watched
VERB + OGRE
bit, confronted, faced, fought, killed, leaves, like, look
OGRE + NOUN
awoke, endowment, family
PREP.
with, with
ADV.
ever, gently
Definitions
noun
1
A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]
And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have to deal with[.]
2
A cruel person.
People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!
name
1
A city in central Latvia.
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And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid
Wiktionary02
And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have to deal with[.]
Wiktionary03
From his end of the hall Beowulf watched the ogre, weighed his endowment, and waited to see how Grendel would strike.
Wiktionary04
Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.
Tatoeba · #371279805
This man is no uncle of ours, but an ogre.
Tatoeba · #454052706
I'm not the ogre you think I am.
Tatoeba · #6444401Usage Notes
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