She-ogre

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female ogre.

    "He it was who alone and unweaponed had struggled with Grendel, and he who heedless had swam to the depths of the tarn to kill the she-ogre."

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"He it was who alone and unweaponed had struggled with Grendel, and he who heedless had swam to the depths of the tarn to kill the she-ogre."

Etymology

From she- + ogre.

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