| 单词 | ornery |
| 释义 | ornery (once / 13955 pages) adj To be ornery is to be grumpy and hard to please. Oscar the Grouch? Definitely ornery. The adjective ornery sprung up in the early 19th century when people started pronouncing ordinary with an accent. The root of ordinary is the Latin word for “order,” and if you disrupt the orderly existence of an ornery person, prepare to get yelled at. A person can have a consistently ornery personality, or maybe you’re feeling ornery today because you skipped breakfast. Some synonyms for ornery are cantankerous and crotchety, words that sound as grumpy as the people they describe. WORD FAMILYornery: orneriness USAGE EXAMPLES“Here’s a picture of Steve, the ornery teenager,” Kerr-Adams said on a recent Sunday afternoon, stopping in a hallway lined with family photographs. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) “There’s no two teams in the league that play the same way. It’s big-bodied, mean-spirited, ornery, skillful hockey. It’s really amazing.” Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) It’s about coal, but also about being ornery and oppositional. Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016) adj having a difficult and contrary disposition Syn cantankerous, crotchety ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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