ogre
noun
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
ogreish
-
a word derived from
ogre.
Example Sentences
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His physical description matched that of the ogreish man who had rushed out of her house shortly before she disappeared: He was 6-foot-4 and heavyset.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Even an ogreish salmon-boat captain, a bachelor again at eighty-seven, was convinced that we were both in love with him.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet "there was to this ogreish creature a kind of innocence that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures."
From Time Magazine Archive
Grandmama was beating time with her hand on the arm of her chair to the merry music-hall tune and the ogreish words.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
