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OGRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ogress mean?
• OGRESS (noun)
The noun OGRESS has 1 sense:
1. (folklore) a female ogre
Familiarity information: OGRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(folklore) a female ogre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("ogress" is a kind of...):
ogre ((folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings)
Context examples
Children were enticed in as models, till their incoherent accounts of her mysterious doings caused Miss Amy to be regarded in the light of a young ogress.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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