ogre
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o·gre 
[oh-ger] Pronunciation Key
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[oh-ger] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh. |
| 2. | a monstrously ugly, cruel, or barbarous person. |
—Related forms
o·gre·ish·ly, o·grish·ly, adverb
o·gre·ism, ogrism, noun
—Synonyms 2. fiend, tyrant, despot.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| o·gre
(ō'gər) Pronunciation Key
n.
[French, probably ultimately from Latin Orcus, god of the underworld.] o'gre·ish (ō'gər-ĭsh, ō'grĭsh) adj. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ogre
ogre
"man-eating giant," 1713, hogre (in a translation of a Fr. version of the Arabian Nights), from Fr. ogre, first used in Perrault's "Contes," 1697. and perhaps formed by him from It. orco "demon, monster," from L. Orcus "Hades," perhaps via an It. dialect. In Eng., more literary than colloquial. The conjecture that it is a from Byzantine Ogur "Hungarian" or some other version of that people's name (perhaps via confusion with the bloodthirsty Huns), lacks historical evidence.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| ogre | |
noun | |
| 1. | a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster] |
| 2. | (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Ogre
O"gre\, n. [F., fr. Sp. ogro, fr. L. Orcus the god of the infernal regions; also, the lower world, hell.] An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. --Maccaulay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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