Ogre

Quick meaning: Ogre is a noun meaning (figuratively) A cruel person.

Meaning

(figuratively) A cruel person.

More Meanings

1. (mythology, folklore) A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.

Example Sentences

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

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

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[.]

If I came suddenly upon a well where women were drawing water or children bathing, a sudden flight was the certain result; which things occurring day after day, were very unpleasant to a person who does not like to be disliked, and who had never been accustomed to be treated as an ogre.

Word Forms

• ogres

Synonyms for ogre

Depending on context, synonyms include fiend, demon, monster, devil.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include demon, devil, fiend, monster, bogeyman, bugbear.

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