Meanings (ES + gloss)
orco
A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the…
Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.
orco
A Russian soldier or gangster.
And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan.
Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic blac…
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