ogre

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈəʊ.ɡə/    美 /ˈoʊ.ɡɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
    — And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]
  2. A cruel person. figuratively
    — People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!

词形变化

ogres plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ogreish ogrish ogreism ogreless ogrelike ogrely ogreness ogreous ogresque she-ogre
相关词
ogress

词源

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.
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