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An ogre is a scary, ugly, giant-like monster from old fairy tales, often shown as cruel and sometimes as eating people. Today the word is also used more lightly, for a real person who seems mean, scary, or bad-tempered — like joking that a strict boss is "an ogre" at work.
（童話）食人巨怪、巨魔；（戲稱）兇惡可怕的人
組成From French; some people connect it to Orcus, an old Roman god of death and the underworld, though I'm not certain enough of that link to state it as fact.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Ogrename
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A city in central Latvia.
ogrenoun/ˈəʊ.ɡə/
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artsfolklorehistoryA large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
- 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[.]
- If I came suddenly upon a well where women were drawing water or children bathing, a sudden flight was the certain result; which things occurring day after day, were very unpleasant to a person who does not like to be disliked, and who had never been accustomed to be treated as an ogre.
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A cruel person.
- People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。