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Shrek

//ʃɹɛk// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An extremely ugly person. derogatory, slang

    "'Well, well, well, who have we got here? 'A very fat Shrek suddenly loomed up on them. 'Your host at your service,' he said, with a little bow."

Etymology

From the fictional ogre Shrek, created by the American author William Steig for his 1990 picture book Shrek! and popularized by the DreamWorks computer-animated movie franchise, whose name derives from Yiddish שרעק (shrek, “fright”).

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