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Meaning of Ogress | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈəʊɡɹɛs

Definitions

  1. A female ogre.
  2. A roundel sable.
  3. A fierce, unfriendly woman.

Equivalents

العربية الغولة
Español orca
Français ogresse
Italiano orchessa
日本語 鬼女
한국어 귀녀
മലയാളം രാക്ഷസി
Русский зла́я ба́ба

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[.]”
“Dear me, Mimsey!. . . you are perfectly outrageous! Do you think I'm an ogress ready to eat her up? On the contrary, I mean to be a friend to her.”
“This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth.”
“I remember being the fall guy for the family, having to take the rent down to the ogress of a landlady so that my parents wouldn't have to face her.”
“Beareth Verte, fiue Fermaulxz in Crosse D'Or, a Border d'Argent, charged with eight Ogresses: or, after the French blazon, 'Ogressée de huit pieces'.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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