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ORNERY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a : having an irritable disposition : cantankerous an ornery old man Telling her that would have been an invitation to getting my head chopped off.
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Ornery - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
To be ornery is to be grumpy and hard to please. Oscar the Grouch? Definitely ornery. The adjective ornery sprung up in the early 19th century.
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ornery - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(originally and chiefly US, especially Appalachia, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
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ornery
ornery, a. dial. and colloq. (ˈɔːnərɪ) Also onery, onnery, o'n'ry, ornary. [dial. var. of ordinary a. 5.] Commonplace, of poor quality, coarse, unpleasant; low, mean, cantankerous. (Now chiefly U.S.)1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) X. 369 The Land is old, completely worn out, the fa...
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ORNERY definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
If you describe someone as ornery, you mean that they are bad-tempered, difficult, and often do things that are mean. [US, disapproval].
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Ornery Beer Company
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Iowa Nice vs. New Hampshire Ornery: A Tale of Spurned Democrats
5 days agoIn what is perhaps a case study in Iowa nice versus live-free-or-die New Hampshire stubbornness, one state is showing that it views its quadrennial parade of visiting presidential candidates as a ...
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ORNERY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
likely to get angry and argue with people: He had been in an ornery mood all day, arguing with everyone who got in his way. Synonyms. cantankerous.
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Ornery - Language Log
"ornery" to mean a good-spirited trickster, a cute yet exasperating individual, or someone who is mischievous (with a positive connotation).
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ORNERY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper. No one can get along with my ornery cousin. Synonyms: testy, surly, ill-natured, ill-tempered, mean stubborn.
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Misleading Words : r/writers - Reddit
Ornery : bad or ill- tempered, combative, stubborn or being difficult. Comes from an older word derived from Scottish and English origins ...
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ORNERY Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words
Synonyms for ORNERY: irritable, angry, cantankerous, surly, bilious, disagreeable, dyspeptic, splenetic; Antonyms of ORNERY: amiable, ...
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Bastable
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Ornery Bastable, a character in the 1998 novel Six Moon Dance by American writer Sheri S.
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orneriness
orneriness Chiefly U.S. (ˈɔːnərɪnɪs) [f. ornery a. + -ness.] Meanness, cussedness, contrariness.1899 B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana iv. 45 They..let loose their deviltries just for pure orneriness. 1927 W. R. James Cow Country 229 The bronk's orneriness had come to the top, and that pony..begi...
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