ogress
/ˈəʊɡɹɛs/US/ˈoʊɡɹɛs/
ogress noun: a female ogre.
Noun (1)
ogress (plural ogresses)
- A female ogre.
- 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."...1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237
- 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.1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma
- A fierce, unfriendly woman.
- 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.1977 December 3, John Mitzel, quoting Harry Allard, “Harry Allard: A Teller of Children's Stories Talks About His Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 8
Noun (2)
ogress (plural ogresses)
ogress meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam
ogress in Hindi
- an ogress
- पिछलपाई pichalpāī
ogress in Tamil
- மனிதனைத் தின்னு அரக்கி
ogress in Marathi
- female ogre
- राक्षसीण rākṣasīṇ, राक्षसी rākṣasī, दानवी dānvī
ogress in Malayalam
- female ogre
- രാക്ഷസി rākṣasi
Synonyms of ogress
Forms of ogress
| plural | ogresses |
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Origin of ogress
Borrowed in the early 1700s from French ogresse, equivalent to ogre + -ess. Piecewise doublet of orcess.
Uncertain. Attested in this form since 1572. The French term ogoesse is only attested later (1611 in an English dictionary, 1690 in a French dictionary) and may be derived from English. The 1486 Book of Coat Armour in the Book of St. Albans says "gonestonys" are called "oglys" in heraldic blazon; perhaps someone in the 1500s misread ogles as ogres(s) and mistook the plural for a singular, compare the use of pommeis (“roundel(s) vert”) as a singular. The form agresses is found in some 18th century works, alongside ogresses.
Questions about ogress
- What does ogress mean?
- Ogress means a female ogre.
- What is ogress in Hindi?
- Ogress in Hindi is पिछलपाई (pichalpāī). See Ogress meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ogress?
- Ogress is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ogress?
- Ogress is pronounced /ˈəʊɡɹɛs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ogress?
- The plural of ogress is ogresses.
Words near ogress in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ogress (page history and authors); पिछलपाई (Hindi) (page history and authors); ogress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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