ornery

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

ornerierorneriestonery

Superlative

onryornary

1.
(Appalachia, especially, informal)(originally and chiefly US, especially Appalachia, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
Đồng nghĩa: contrary, crabby, cross-grained, crotchety, honery, ill-tempered, intractable, obnoxious, obstreperous, peevish, stroppy, unsociable
2.
(US, general, humorous, informal)(originally Southern US, now general US, humorous, informal) Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
Đồng nghĩa: full of the devil
3.
(obsolete)Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

contrary crabbycross-grainedcrotchetyhoneryill-temperedintractableobnoxious obstreperous peevish stroppy unsociablefull of the devil

Cùng gốc / liên quan

ornerily orneriness

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Nguồn gốc từ

A contracted or dialectal pronunciation of ordinary. ordinary (“ordinary, commonplace”) was the earliest sense; the meaning of the word then shifted to “inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant”—presumably due to ordinariness—and finally to disagreeable (“disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with”).