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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, o·grism, noun
Synonyms
2. fiend, tyrant, despot.
2. fiend, tyrant, despot.
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Word Origin & History
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
EXPANDthat 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.
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