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    [Adjective]  | "or*nery" | \ ˈȯr-nə-rē \


    1: having an irritable disposition : cantankerous

    2: difficult to deal with or control

    3: having or showing a playful tendency to cause trouble : mischievous


    Origin: 1849 ;

     Alteration of ordinary;

    [Adjective]  | "ornery" 


    1: having or showing a habitually bad temper;


      * e.g., " ... an ornery old man who always yells at the neighborhood kids to keep off his lawn "





     [ "ornery" ]

    1: mean and ill-tempered, irascible

      * e.g.,  ... That dog has been ornery all day. 

     [ "ornery" ]

    1: Stubborn, irritable, rough on the edges, a little mean, grumpy. Adjective. The correct spelling is ornery, but many Americans say/spell as awnry.

      * e.g.,  ... "These ornery old guys at the job will never change" 

     [ "ornery" ]

    1: to always be in to trouble or up to something.

      * e.g.,  ... "My son was so ornery when he was little. He got into everything he was not supposed to." 

     [ "ornery" ]

    1: rude and crude person one that thinks highly of themself and no one else

      * e.g.,  ... (driving)did you see him cut me off that was hella ornery 

     [ "ornery" ]

    1: 1:(n.) one who sucks the ass

      * e.g.,  ... I hear that trouble likes an ornery man. 


     [ "ornery" ]

    2: see assfucker


     [ "ornery" ]

    3: 2:(n.) hairy manbeast


     [ "ornery" ]

    4: 3:(n.) Biggest loser of Sow

     [ "Ornery" ]

    1: Harmlessly mischievous, Harmless teasing.

      * e.g.,  ... That red headed boy is an ornery sun of a buck! 

     [ "Ornery" ]

    1: Mean, nasty, grumpy.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: Rebekah is so ornery! 

     [ "Ornery" ]

    1: Mischievous, unpredicatable, contrary. Prone to teasing, silliness or pranks but not necessarily intentionally cruel in nature.

      * e.g.,  ... My friend in Georgia announced plans to dye my dog pink, then had the nerve to suggest it was unfair to call him "ornery." 

     [ "Ornery" ]

    1: Wanting to do something just to make someone else's day worse

      * e.g.,  ... Ornery: "I want to get hit by a car just to dent the damn thing* 

     [ "ornery monkey" ]

    1: mischievously playful person

      * e.g.,  ... Patrick looked like he was going to kiss me--instead, he stuck his tongue up my nose, that ornery monkey! 

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