ornery

Etymology


A or  pronunciation of. (“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 (“disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with”).

Adjective

 * 1)  Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
 * 2)  Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
 * 3)  Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
 * 1)  Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
 * 2)  Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
 * 1)  Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
 * 2)  Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
 * 1)  Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
 * 2)  Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
 * 1)  Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
 * 1)  Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: инатлив,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, quengelig
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зло̀чест
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese: (不堪)