ornery
Senso (Inglese)
- (Appalachia, especially, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
- (Southern-US, humorous, informal) Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
- (obsolete) Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
Concetti
sinonimi
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɔːnəɹi/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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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