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ogre
ogress
noun ogres, ogresses
    1. In fairy stories: a frightening, cruel, ugly, man-eating male or female giant.
    2. A cruel, frightening or ugly person.
      Thesaurus: monster, demon, fiend.
Derivative: ogreish
adj
    Etymology: 18c: French (first used in Perrault's Contes, 1697), perhaps from Latin Orcus, the name of the Roman god of the underworld.



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