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a monster with layers, because the scary things usually are.
means A large, brutish, man-eating monster of fairy tales and folklore — and, by extension, any cruel or menacing person who looms over others.
from From French ogre, popularized by Charles Perrault's fairy tales in the late 1600s. Its deeper roots are debated: the leading theory traces it back to Latin Orcus, a god of the underworld and punisher of the dead, whose name later shadowed words like 'orc.' So the modern bedtime monster may carry, very faintly, the chill of an ancient death-deity.
- folklore role
- Europe's go-to child-eating bogeyman for centuries
- likely origin
- name may trace to Orcus, Roman death god
- fairy-tale staple
- Puss in Boots tricked one into becoming a mouse
- modern image
- Shrek rebranded ogres as misunderstood swamp heroes
for instance
shrek — dreamworks animated character, ogre protagonist of the 2001 film franchise
jabba the hutt — star wars villain, grotesque slug-like creature in return of the jedi (1983)