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ogress

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o·gress  (grs)
n.
1. A female giant or monster in legends and fairy tales that eats humans.
2. A woman who is felt to be particularly cruel, brutish, or hideous.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ogress - (folklore) a female ogre
ogre - (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
Translations
ogress
n (Myth) → menschenfressende Riesin; (fig) → Ungeheuer nt, → Unmensch m


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He now knew that the lady who said she was the daughter of an Indian king was an ogress, who lived in desolate places, and who by a thousand wiles surprised and devoured passers-by.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
With that, and with an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients, such as mischief, cunning, malice, triumph, and patient expectation, were all mixed up together in a kind of physiognomical punch, Miss Miggs composed herself to wait and listen, like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
Children were enticed in as models, till their incoherent accounts of her mysterious doings caused Miss Amy to be regarded in the light of a young ogress.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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