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Ogress

Ogress \O"gress\, n. [F. ogresse. See Ogre.] A female ogre.
--Tennyson.

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ogress

Etymology 1 n. 1 A female ogre 2 A fierce, unfriendly woman. Etymology 2

n. (context heraldiccharge English) A roundel sable.

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ogress

n. (folklore) a female ogre

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Ogress (comics)

Ogress is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Usage examples of "ogress".

Then the lost Archangel and his counsellors are hurled into the Bottomless Pit, and the Angel takes the Bard up to the vault of Hell where he has full view of a three-faced ogress, Sin, who would make of heaven, a hell, and thence departing, a heaven of hell.

She had never thought that what was possible for a merwoman was feasible for an ogress.

Mela Merwoman, Ida Human, and Okra Ogress, who are here temporarily until their rocket seed is ready to move again.

Ogresses no more all had to be huge and hairy than witches all had to be wicked, or faeries small.

But like practically everyone else in Argonia, ogres and ogresses interbred, mostly with giants and wizards and witches of ill repute at first.

Ogresses, and even descendants of Ogresses, were commonly known to eat PEOPLE.

Vague doubts of witches and ogresses crossed my mind, but I said to myself the stories about them were not true, and kept on as best I could.

We have ogres and ogresses, and dragons and dragonesses, and the like.

We have ogres and ogresses, and drag ons and dragonesses, and the like.

Their yells subsided, then rose afresh as a second and smaller contingent of Firvulag, warrior ogresses under Fouletot Blackbreast, started up the ravine on the left shoulder of the ridge.

And so the festive meeting took place near the headwaters of the Onion River south of High Vrazel, in a pretty part of the forest where the bulbuls sang amid the giant ferns and blossoming trees dropped petals on a scene of rustic splendor The King and Queen of the Firvulag, sixty of their most discreet courtiers, an honor guard of Wamor Ogres and Ogresses, and almost the entire strength of the royal culinary corps starred in a day-long fete champetre that completely overawed the innocent Howlers.

Each time he unhappened one of her Possessions, she returned with another, and if she ever decided that he was not worth her while, she would come as an ogress and smash him into oblivion.