ornery

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɔːnəɹi/|/ˈɔːnɹi/    美 /ˈɔɹnəɹi/|/ˈɔɹnɹi/|/ˈɔnɹi/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous. Appalachia,especially,informal
    — Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme. "The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs. "The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!"
  2. Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing. US,general,humorous,informal
  3. Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant. obsolete

词形变化

ornerier comparative orneriest superlative onery alternative onry alternative o'n'ry alternative ornary alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
ornerily orneriness

词源

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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