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fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people

or:

an evil, hideous, and frightening person

ogre = a giant from a fairy tale

One day, a giant ogre attacked the village.
There might be ogres and giants under the stairs, —but, as I tell Hannah, there MIGHT be elves and fairies and enchanted frogs
Kate Douglas Wiggin -- Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
ogres with monstrous teeth, and...
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

ogres = frightening giants

ogres = frightening giants that like to eat people

"You don't know my father," I said, like he was some big ogre, chasing boys across the yard with a shotgun.
Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You

ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person (in fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people)

"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."
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy

ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person

There's an Ogre or two and a Hag that we could introduce you to, up there.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant

Monstrous shapes have been sighted in the woods—rumors of ogres and werewolves are rampant.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

ogres = fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people

or:

an evil, hideous, and frightening person

Yes, I know what some of you have read about ogres, but our Bob is a reformed ogre and...
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan

ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people

or:

an evil, hideous, and frightening person

Snatching the spade, the ogre abruptly snapped it in two and seized Max by the collar.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people

or:

an evil, hideous, and frightening person

When I left the plantation, I drew a long breath, and felt as if I had escaped from an ogre's den."
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
The ogres are in the suburbs.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
He looked out of place among humans, like an ogre in a storybook.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
The line of javelins chewed through the enemy like a set of giant teeth, felling ogres and snake women and hellhounds.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
The ogres shuffled forward.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
'Parenting experts' make women feel like ogres if they slip out of the house to work or skip a reading of Goodnight Moon.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
How I loathed this sleeping ogre!
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

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