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He had to follow me and guard me wherever I went, always keeping at a distance, because he mustn't speak to me and the ogre was always watching.

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  1. noun A giant or monster in legends and fairy tales that eats humans.
  2. noun A person who is felt to be particularly cruel, brutish, or hideous.

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  • He explained that the ogre was a vegetarian, so would not crunch our bones. —  Question Quest
  • The fairy naturally assumed the ogre was as dull as he was supposed to be. —  Ogre Ogre
  • Dor remembered Crunch the ogre, and retreated; a zombie ogre was still an ogre. —  Castle Roogna
  • But beside the ogre was a lovely young nymph, and she was holding a little boy. —  Swell Foop
  • But this time the hen gave a cackle which woke the ogre, and just as Jack got out of the house he heard him calling, "Wife, wife, what have you done with my golden hen?" —  Storynory - Stories For Kids
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  1. French, probably ultimately from Latin Orcus, god of the underworld.

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  1. from French ogre, from Spanish ogro, in older forms huergo, huerco, uerco = Italian orco, huorco, a demon, hobgoblin, from Latin Orcus, the abode of the dead, the god of the lower regions.
 

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