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单词 ogre
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Definition of ogre in English:

ogre

noun ˈəʊɡəˈoʊɡər
  • 1(in folklore) a man-eating giant.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When you're a kid, you grow up on fairy tales, witches and giants and ogres.
    • She would hold it, gripping the handle as her father had taught her, and pretend to fight off giant ogres or evil witches with magical powers.
    • I met trolls and ogres and witches and carried secret weapons and magical words with me.
    • This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
    • At that moment, a witch or a giant or an ogre could have been holding that light.
    • I remember that there were lots of fairy tales that included giants of all kinds, from the ogres to some of the more ‘kindly’ giants.
    • We rested on his right shoulder as he sauntered above the trees, all the while telling us of the differences between ogres and giants.
    • From the depths of Gan came the ogres, the goblins, the trolls, and, of course, the leprechauns, who were later conquered by the good of elves.
    • The humans and elves fight against the monstrous orcs and ogres while the third group, called the Zerg, seek to destroy both of them.
    • Monsters such as goblins, orcs, trolls, and ogres thrived here.
    • But more obviously, elves live here, not trolls, ogres or dark elves.
    • Ella's journey to find a way to break the spell has its own dangers as she meets up with elves, ogres, giants, fairies, and of course a very charming prince.
    • A comic-fantasy-adventure filled with magic and music, ogres and elves, giants and wicked stepsisters, the film revisits a classic fairy-tale world with a distinctly 21st century twist.
    • It is a time when the very mention of witches, gnomes, hobgoblins and ogres is enough to conjure up a fantasy world populated with a multitude of such creatures.
    • You do not fear the ogres and the trolls do you?
    • Many kids are scared of monsters under the bed, ogres and bogeymen lurking in wardrobes and the cupboard under the stairs.
    • You can be the fairy princess, and I'll be an ogre who's coming to get you.
    • Though the giant spiders composed of most of the creatures, there were also trolls, goblins, and ogres.
    • I don't really like the film - I mean, if the main characters weren't ugly green ogres, I might have liked it better.
    • It is a modern-day fairy tale complete with magic, an ogre, brave deeds, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.
    Synonyms
    monster, giant, troll, bogeyman, bogey, demon, devil
    archaic bugbear
    1. 1.1 A cruel or terrifying person.
      it is clear that I am no ogre
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You visit a lot of cities when you're being chased by a giant marketing ogre.
      • Libraries are not silent, stuffy places where the staff are ogres, they are places for the whole community and we want as many people as possible to come here.
      • Even as they insisted that they had done nothing wrong and that the Republicans were ogres for bringing it up, they launched a massive effort to staunch the scandal's flow.
      • ‘Divorcees are not criminals, women are not angels, men are not ogres,’ he stated.
      • It was then that Congress, under the leadership of those great ogres, voted by veto-proof majorities to end the arms embargo.
      • In fact, for all that he has been painted in some quarters as a manipulative ogre, one criticism that might be levelled at him is that he is too soft.
      • Why would we want to make them look like angels, when they are really ogres?
      Synonyms
      brute, fiend, monster, beast, devil, demon, barbarian, savage, sadist, animal, tyrant, villain, scoundrel
      informal bastard, swine, pig
      vulgar slang shit
      archaic blackguard

Derivatives

  • ogreish

  • adjective ˈəʊɡ(ə)rɪʃˈoʊɡ(ə)rɪʃ
    • His face contorted in fury at the murder of his kinsmen, and with a shrill cry he leapt at the nearest of the ogrish guards.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Who dare call upon an ogreish super, even if the soaked bathroom floor threatens to collapse?
      • The death of my wife seems to have made me a little… ogrish.
      • I tend to ignore them, after an initial smile to show I'm not entirely ogrish.

Origin

Early 18th century: from French, first used by the French writer Perrault in 1697.

  • orc from Old English:

    In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings the orcs are ugly, malevolent, goblin-like creatures that attack in hordes and sometimes ride wolves. The word was not invented by Tolkien, and had been used by the Anglo-Saxons, to whom an orc was ‘a demon’. It had died out by ad 1000, but came back into English in the 17th century from Italian orco ‘man-eating giant’. The source in both cases was Orcus, the name of a Roman god of the underworld which was also the root of ogre (early 18th century). When Tolkien was writing in the 1930s orc had become rare, and he revived the word—as a noted scholar he would have been aware of the earlier Old English use.

Rhymes

Saratoga, toga, yoga
 
 

Definition of ogre in US English:

ogre

nounˈoʊɡərˈōɡər
  • 1(in folklore) a man-eating giant.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't really like the film - I mean, if the main characters weren't ugly green ogres, I might have liked it better.
    • Many kids are scared of monsters under the bed, ogres and bogeymen lurking in wardrobes and the cupboard under the stairs.
    • Monsters such as goblins, orcs, trolls, and ogres thrived here.
    • This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
    • From the depths of Gan came the ogres, the goblins, the trolls, and, of course, the leprechauns, who were later conquered by the good of elves.
    • A comic-fantasy-adventure filled with magic and music, ogres and elves, giants and wicked stepsisters, the film revisits a classic fairy-tale world with a distinctly 21st century twist.
    • When you're a kid, you grow up on fairy tales, witches and giants and ogres.
    • It is a time when the very mention of witches, gnomes, hobgoblins and ogres is enough to conjure up a fantasy world populated with a multitude of such creatures.
    • You can be the fairy princess, and I'll be an ogre who's coming to get you.
    • She would hold it, gripping the handle as her father had taught her, and pretend to fight off giant ogres or evil witches with magical powers.
    • Though the giant spiders composed of most of the creatures, there were also trolls, goblins, and ogres.
    • But more obviously, elves live here, not trolls, ogres or dark elves.
    • I remember that there were lots of fairy tales that included giants of all kinds, from the ogres to some of the more ‘kindly’ giants.
    • You do not fear the ogres and the trolls do you?
    • Ella's journey to find a way to break the spell has its own dangers as she meets up with elves, ogres, giants, fairies, and of course a very charming prince.
    • It is a modern-day fairy tale complete with magic, an ogre, brave deeds, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.
    • At that moment, a witch or a giant or an ogre could have been holding that light.
    • The humans and elves fight against the monstrous orcs and ogres while the third group, called the Zerg, seek to destroy both of them.
    • I met trolls and ogres and witches and carried secret weapons and magical words with me.
    • We rested on his right shoulder as he sauntered above the trees, all the while telling us of the differences between ogres and giants.
    Synonyms
    monster, giant, troll, bogeyman, bogey, demon, devil
    1. 1.1 A cruel or terrifying person.
      it is clear that I am no ogre
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You visit a lot of cities when you're being chased by a giant marketing ogre.
      • It was then that Congress, under the leadership of those great ogres, voted by veto-proof majorities to end the arms embargo.
      • ‘Divorcees are not criminals, women are not angels, men are not ogres,’ he stated.
      • In fact, for all that he has been painted in some quarters as a manipulative ogre, one criticism that might be levelled at him is that he is too soft.
      • Why would we want to make them look like angels, when they are really ogres?
      • Even as they insisted that they had done nothing wrong and that the Republicans were ogres for bringing it up, they launched a massive effort to staunch the scandal's flow.
      • Libraries are not silent, stuffy places where the staff are ogres, they are places for the whole community and we want as many people as possible to come here.
      Synonyms
      brute, fiend, monster, beast, devil, demon, barbarian, savage, sadist, animal, tyrant, villain, scoundrel

Origin

Early 18th century: from French, first used by the French writer Perrault in 1697.

 
 
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