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or·ner·y    Audio Help   [awr-nuh-ree] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, -ner·i·er, -ner·i·est. Dialect.
1.ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
2.stubborn: I can't do a thing with that ornery mule.
3.low or vile.
4.inferior or common; ordinary.

[Origin: 1790–1800; contr. of ordinary]

or·ner·i·ness, noun

1. mean, ill-tempered, ill-natured, surly, testy.
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or·ner·y    Audio Help   (ôr'nə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   or·ner·i·er, or·ner·i·est
Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.


[Alteration of ordinary.]

or'ner·i·ness' n.
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ornery 
1816, Amer.Eng. dialectal contraction of ordinary. "Commonplace," hence "of poor quality, coarse, ugly." By c.1860 the sense had evolved to "mean, cantankerous."

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ornery

adjective
having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous

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