Ogre

Definitions

1. A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
2. A city in central Latvia.
3. A cruel person.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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[.]”

“And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have⟳ to deal⟳ with[.]”

“From his end⟳ of the hall Beowulf watched the ogre, weighed his endowment, and waited to see⟳ how Grendel would strike⟳.”

“People are going to think⟳ I'm an ogre if I refuse⟳ to buy⟳ coffee for my little brother!”

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