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In the story, the ogre lived in a dark cave and captured anyone who came near.ogre = frightening giant
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He acted like an ogre, shouting at everyone and making unreasonable demands.ogre = cruel or terrifying person
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One day, an ogre attacked the village.ogre = frightening giant
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"David," Rudy said in a reassuring voice as he held my shoulders, "I know I bark at you quite a bit, and you may think I'm an ogre." (source)ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person
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Ella, it's not safe here with the ogres. (source)ogres = frightening giants that like to eat people
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"You don't know my father," I said, like he was some big ogre, chasing boys across the yard with a shotgun. (source)ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person (in fairy tales: a frightening giant -- especially one who likes to eat people)
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There's an Ogre or two and a Hag that we could introduce you to, up there. (source)Ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant
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Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales, but not one of them had done all these things. (source)ogres = frightening giants that like to eat people
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Ogreish gloom encompassed me in recapitulation of the agony of the night before.† (source)standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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As in the stories of the cannibal ogresses, the fearfulness of this loss of personal individuation can be the whole burden of the transcendental experience for unqualified souls.† (source)
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Or you could cease being human altogether, and become an elf, ogre, alien, or any other creature from literature, movies, or mythology.† (source)
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'Parenting experts' make women feel like ogres if they slip out of the house to work or skip a reading of Goodnight Moon.† (source)
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Heit turned to a coat-room in one corner of the musty old room and extracted a large, soft-brimmed, straw hat, the downward curving edges of which seemed to heighten the really bland and yet ogreish effect of his protruding eyes and voluminous whiskers, and having thus equipped himself, said: "I'm just going in the sheriff's office a minute, Earl.† (source)
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Father realized he could not keep Mr. Erskine in the house after that without being considered an ogre.† (source)
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Not all of ourwarders were ogres.† (source)
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Above all, the ogreish mother who, Barnard enlightenment or no, has dominated Les's life with bitchery and vengeance ever since the moment when she caught Leslie, then three, diddling herself and forced her to wear hand-splints for months as prophylaxis against self-abuse.† (source)
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