ogress

plural ogresses

1. A female ogre.

   This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth.

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33

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   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[.]

   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

2. 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

plural ogresses

1. governmentA roundel sable.

   Beareth Verte, fiue Fermaulxz in Crosse D'Or, a Border d'Argent, charged with eight Ogresses: or, after the French blazon, 'Ogressée de huit pieces'.

   1572, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie, II, 37b

   Synonyms: gunstone, pellet