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Ogre
Definitions
- 1 A city in central Latvia.
- 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[.]"
- 2 (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings wordnet
- 3 A cruel person. figuratively
"People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!"
- 4 a cruel wicked and inhuman person wordnet
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.
Borrowed from Latvian Ogre.
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