Definitions
(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
Word origin
First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. Doublet of orc and Orcus.
Used in a sentence
“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[.]”
“From his end of the hall Beowulf watched the ogre, weighed his endowment, and waited to see how Grendel would strike.”
“People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fairy-tale giant”4 letters
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