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ogress
noun as in hag
noun as in shrew
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Slapu, a 9-foot-tall ogress with long claws and sharp teeth, has one child in her basket, another in one hand — and the other is grasping for you.
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The ogress and the orphans do the ridding, with cleareyed ingenuity.
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The lace is sometimes vicious, the blood sometimes dainty, but everything is always graceful and pretty — even an ogress fantasizing about eating people is actually dreaming of marzipan and butter.
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The ogress had already closed half the distance to the bush.
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No, she had never been the ogress he had thought her a year ago.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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