ogre
noun
a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
ogrish
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a word derived from
ogre.
Example Sentences
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Give us a crusty, ogrish, hairy centre-half of a rumour any day.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2011
As usual, Signor Mussolini managed in his discourse to turn several familiar ideas inside out, disemboweling them with hearty, ogrish gust.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let it not be supposed that Master Horner was of a cruel and ogrish nature—a babe-eater—a Herod—one who delighted in torturing the helpless.
From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Caleb's employer, Tackleton, in his large green cape and bull-headed looking mahogany tops, was then described as entering pretty much in the manner of what one might suppose to be that of an ogrish toy-merchant.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
And after vague hop-o'-my-thumb wanderings, he had a disconnected memory of Hugh—a wild, rugged, ragged, bearded Hugh who caught him up fiercely as though he had an ogrish hunger for the feel of little boys.
From Snow-Blind by Katharine Newlin Burt
