ogress
/ˈoʊɡɹɛs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fierce, unfriendly woman.
Example Sentences
- "And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]"
- "Dear me, Mimsey!. . . you are perfectly outrageous! Do you think I'm an ogress ready to eat her up? On the contrary, I mean to be a friend to her."
- "This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth."
- "I remember being the fall guy for the family, having to take the rent down to the ogress of a landlady so that my parents wouldn't have to face her."
- "Beareth Verte, fiue Fermaulxz in Crosse D'Or, a Border d'Argent, charged with eight Ogresses: or, after the French blazon, 'Ogressée de huit pieces'."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈoʊɡɹɛs/
- British English: /ˈəʊɡɹɛs/