ogress

IPA: ˈoʊgrʌs

Examples of "ogress" in Sentences

O.D.D. 40.) (4) Do domestic service: ogress is a maid.
My mother, as well as an ogress, was a Nevada book-canvasser.
Crunch grimaced, and this time not even an ogress would have mistaken his ire.
Donkey is a pack mule, Puss In Boots is an overweight house cat and Fiona is an outlaw ogress.
She, believing it was her mother (for she called the ogress mother), lowered her tresses, and the prince climbed boldly up.
I did object to the fact that local bloggers were more upset by the supposed ogress 'insensitive comment than the proposed ordinance.
Dr. Johnson, who seems to have regarded her as nothing better than a kind of ogress, tells us, in so many words, that "Lady Macbeth is merely detested."
As a last resort, Jane made an appointment to see Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, the ogress in charge of the Passport Division of the State Department, described by Time magazine in 1951 as “the most unfirable, most feared” woman in government.
(I.F.T. 175-176, 51.) (6) Other malignant actions: ogress is a witch and deceives heroine by tricks; has her seven human co-wives blinded; tries to destroy her stepson by tricks; tries to drag hero into the glittering well; ogress gambles with hero and first wins his companions, his hawk, and himself, but subsequently loses her dog, her hawk, and hero to hero's brother; [variant told in Legends of the Panjâb].