Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling or suggestive of an ogre.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective resembling an ogre
  • adjective cruel and wicked

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Examples

  • I still have some original sketches: in one he's very upright and ogreish, in another he's on all fours and looks like a wild boar.

    How we made: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler on The Gruffalo 2012

  • His mastery of folktale archetypes -- the poor charcoal burner, the ogreish Barrows, the Peter-Pan-like Brother Boy, the strange-eyed girl touched by faerie -- is compelling as well.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Surrounded once again by top-drawer talent including Charles Tingwell (her husband in DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS), Jack Hedley (THE ANNIVERSARY), and Edwin Richfield (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT), Shelley is here opposed by the ogreish and even more offensively made-up Patrick Wymark (!) as Major Jocomo and Michael Ripper as Lieutenant Tojoko.

    Fear and Loathing on Blood Island 2008

  • Surrounded once again by top-drawer talent including Charles Tingwell (her husband in DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS), Jack Hedley (THE ANNIVERSARY), and Edwin Richfield (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT), Shelley is here opposed by the ogreish and even more offensively made-up Patrick Wymark (!) as Major Jocomo and Michael Ripper as Lieutenant Tojoko.

    Archive 2008-03-16 2008

  • Arthur and his affections, clearly this is parental screwing up on an ogreish, fairy-tale level.

    Jane Smiley: Here Be Dragons 2008

  • This is not the exact frame of the face as it flashes onscreen in THE EXORCIST, which you can see on the cover of the first edition of Mark Kermode's BFI Modern Classics book on the picture; the face in the movie bears much the same pallid, ogreish look as Bergman's Devil.

    PERSONA: Roots of Captain Howdy 2007

  • This is not the exact frame of the face as it flashes onscreen in THE EXORCIST, which you can see on the cover of the first edition of Mark Kermode's BFI Modern Classics book on the picture; the face in the movie bears much the same pallid, ogreish look as Bergman's Devil.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • In The Magic Toyshop, fifteen year old Melanie is forced to make a rapid transition to adulthood when her parents die in an accident and she and her two siblings are forced to move in with their ogreish uncle Phillip and his cowed family.

    Recent Reading Roundup 3 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • In The Magic Toyshop, fifteen year old Melanie is forced to make a rapid transition to adulthood when her parents die in an accident and she and her two siblings are forced to move in with their ogreish uncle Phillip and his cowed family.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • It was as large as a pig, and its eight thick hairy legs drove its ogreish body over the floor at headlong pace; its four evilly gleaming eyes shone with a horrible intelligence, and its fangs dripped venom that Conan knew, from the burning of his shoulder where only a few drops had splashed as the thing struck and missed, was laden with swift death.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

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