ogre
noun
- West-European mythological creature; a hideous giant of fairy tales and folklore that feeds on human beings : monster
- a dreaded person or object
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.ɡə/ / /ˈoʊ.ɡɚ/
name
Etymology: Etymology tree Latvian Ogrebor. English Ogre Borrowed from Latvian Ogre.
- A city in central Latvia.
noun
Etymology: First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. Doublet of orc and Orcus.
- A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
“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[.]”
“If I came suddenly upon a well where women were drawing water or children bathing, a sudden flight was the certain result; which things occurring day after day, were very unpleasant to a person who does not like to be disliked, and who had never been accustomed to be treated as an ogre.”
- A cruel person.
“People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!”