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Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

  1. (Appalachia, especially, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
  2. (Southern-US, humorous, informal) Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
  3. (obsolete) Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.

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/ˈɔːnəɹi/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

A contracted or dialectal pronunciation of ordinary. Sense 3 (“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 sense 1 (“disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with”).

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