she-ogre

English

Etymology

From she- +‎ ogre.

Noun

she-ogre (plural she-ogres)

  1. A female ogre.
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
      He it was who alone and unweaponed had struggled with Grendel, and he who heedless had swam to the depths of the tarn to kill the she-ogre.
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