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ornery, a. dial. and colloq.|ˈɔːnərɪ|
Also onery, onnery, o'n'ry, ornary.
[dial. var. of ordinary a. 5.]
Commonplace, of poor quality, coarse, unpleasant; low, mean, cantankerous. (Now chiefly U.S.)
1816U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) X. 369 The Land is old, completely worn out, the farming extremely ornary in general. 1849J. J. Hooper Night at Ugly Man's in Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 471/2 We had an old one-horned cow, mighty onnery (ordinary) lookin'. 1860M. J. Holmes Maude v. 63 She pronounced her ‘not quite so onery a white woman as she at first took her to be.’ a1861T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) vii. 71 Good company betters the orneriest sort er weather. 1875C. M. Yonge My Young Alcides II. ix. 261 If I refused, he should think..that I couldn't take that ‘ornary object’, as he had overheard himself described that day. 1887E. Custer Tenting on Plains ix. 286 He's a good enough fellow, only he's an onery scamp of a Republican. 1905Dialect Notes III. 63 The onriest critter. 1913H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders viii. 169 ‘What sort of men are they?’ ‘Torn down scoundrels, every one.’ ‘Oh, come now!’ ‘Yes, they are; plumb onery.’ 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix. 196 A low-down thought—mean and ornery. 1937P. K. Devine Folklore of Newfoundland 35 Ornery, ugly or plain; no good. 1938I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure xiv. 128 If he had not mentioned the clothes I should not have become ornery. But these clothes were a sore point with me. I was on the defensive at once. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 28 Jan. 10/3 We are forced to spend all this money solely because mankind up to now is too ornery to organize international life on some more sensible basis. 1939Nat. Geogr. Mag. Aug. 144/1 Wild sweet williams in the wood lot were much more alluring than the ‘o'n'ry’ weeds. 1941J. Faulkner Men Working 201 Mules is the orneriest critters. 1943Pocahontas Times (Marlinton, W. Va.) 4 Mar. 2/1 That onery cuss of a jay bird. 1944T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows xvi. 28 Not a thing, you ornery cuss do you have to do. 1958M. Sakel Epilepsy (1959) 40 He may, contrary to his usual behavior, become argumentative, pugnacious or ‘ornery’ in behavior. 1962G. MacEwan Blazing Old Cattle Trail xxi. 143 There the sheep were in one of their orneriest moods, determined not to get their nice Merino wool wet. 1962W. Stegner Wolf Willow iii. i. 135 No Canadian steer would ever be angry or stubborn; he would be o'nery or ringy or on the prod. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 18/3 The public as a whole might turn ornery if some semblance of prosperity were not found just around the corner. |