ornery Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈɔː.nər.i]
  • Us [ ˈɔːr.nɚ.i]

Meaning of ornery In English

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  • This important insight illuminates and explains responses and behavior that otherwise seem peculiar, ornery, or perverse.

  • But we are a notoriously ornery and self-willed flock.

  • No one has the inside track on which of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ornery, obstreperous, unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall-walking millions.

  • Robby and his men have a confrontation with an ornery steer that teaches them just how dangerous cowboy work can be.

  • The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word "peevish", meaning ornery or ill-tempered.

  • He was often described as having grown more ornery with age.

  • These angels are demonic and ornery and concerned that their error be found out.

  • An ornery male centaur whose equine portion is beautiful but whose human portion is ugly and brutish.

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