Synonyms:
ogre
Meaning: (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
Synonyms:
monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre
Meaning: a cruel wicked and inhuman person
Usage examples
Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
At last they arrived at the village where the ogre lived, and they went straight to his hut.
And the gazelles all cried: 'Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.'
So, in spite of her dread of the ogre, she slept till dawn, when her father woke her, and told her roughly that he was ready to continue their journey.
Grim shadows diapered the snow; the air was strangely mild; The valley's girth was dumb with mirth, the laughter of the wild; The still, sardonic laughter of an ogre o'er a child.
Then Masilo implored her to give the child back to him; but she would not listen, and only answered: 'If I were to give her back you would only obey the laws of your country and take her to your father, the ogre, and she would be eaten.'