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ogre

/oh-ger/US // ˈoʊ gər //UK // (ˈəʊɡə) //

食人魔,妖怪,食人妖,食人怪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
    • : a monstrously ugly, cruel, or barbarous person.

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Examples

  • Storm in sky and sea matches human passions and conflict; waves grind boulders “with ogre anger.”

  • His demeanor won him the nickname “ogre of Avetrana” because of his dirty fingernails and soiled clothing.

  • When the new installment of Shrek opened this past weekend, audiences flocked for another fix of Ogre and Donkey.

  • A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre.

  • And I understood how it had come to pass that our hulking old ogre had fallen in love with her so desperately.

  • And we left our nervous ogre and our poor little elf to fight out between themselves whatever battle they had to fight.

  • There she silently wept herself to sleep and her dreams were filled with visions of that dreadful ogre, Bonaparte.

  • The catch is often very good, and the boats come back to the huts laden with the ogre fish, destined to be eaten in their turn!