Crossword clues for ornery
ornery
- Downright mean
- Unlikely to bend
- Bad tempered
- Yosemite Sam adjective
- Like a mule, stereotypically
- Having a mean streak
- Very testy
- Very stubborn
- Stubborn and mean
- Really testy
- Not at all good-humored
- Meaner than a junkyard dog
- Mean as a snake
- Mean and stubborn
- Like Yosemite Sam
- Like old coots
- Like a grumpy old man
- Like a cantankerous old coot
- Hard to budge
- Games magazine's "The World's Most ___ Crossword"
- Easily perturbed
- Crotchety and cantankerous
- Obstinate
- Cantankerous
- Mean and nasty
- Difficult
- Stubborn as a mule
- Pig-headed
- Not at all nice
- Hard to please
- Crabbed
- Ill-tempered
- Irascible
- Mean, as a critter
- Cussed
- Like mean critters
- Like obstinate critters
- Mulish
- Like a stubborn critter
- Mean, as a varmint
- Like an old cuss
- Hard to get along with
- Like a junkyard dog
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1816, American English dialectal contraction of ordinary (adj.). "Commonplace," hence "of poor quality, coarse, ugly." By c.1860 the sense had evolved to "mean, cantankerous." Related: Orneriness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context Appalachian English) cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable. 2 (context humorous Southern US English) mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way. 3 (context obsolete English) commonplace, inferior.
WordNet
adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety]
Usage examples of "ornery".
About the time Theresa started getting bloaty and ornery John realized the trip was mandatory.
Con Gilbert, as ornery an old shikepoke as ever walked the earth, and tight with money, too.
Montolio gasped when he learned from Hooter that the drow and the ornery bear were sharing the two-chambered cave.
Probably the same one that will sometimes slip up outside my cabin window in the hollow squeaking shank of a strung-out night to suddenly squawl me up out of my swivel chair three feet in the air then disappear into the swamp with yips of ornery delight.
Admittin all you say abowt the doctrin to be troo, I must say the reglar perfessional Sperrit rappers--them as makes a biznis on it--air abowt the most ornery set of cusses I ever enkountered in my life.
At first, the somewhat addlebrained but sympathetic sheriff, Bernabe Montoya, figured it was just one more irrational manifestation of an ornery temperament, of a kid, now almost middle-aged, with a king-sized chip on his shoulder, going slightly amuck.
One thing, however, remains constant: these card creatures are just as ornery, just as irrational and chaotic as the other Wonderland inhabitants Alice has already encountered.
E-mail address is there along with my ornery bimonthly column, Xanth database, and ongoing survey of Internet publishers maintained for aspiring writers.
I was pretty sure of Butts, because he was an ornery sort of a cuss anyway, and him and Blaine was mighty thick.
Com Pewter, it turned out, was an ornery machine that had supposedly been turned to good but, like Fracto Cloud, still could be pretty difficult about it.
These knuckleheads wanted to show how ornery they could be if anybody tried to interfere with them.
The Capellans have got to be the stubbornest, orneriest, most backward people in the universe.
Being a Horse Indian raised in bow-wood country, she knew how to deal with the ornery natural bobwire.
We'll dig up all the guns we can find, and catch up the orneriest cayuses in our strings, and have a real, old lynching bee--sabe?
Perhaps from this connection, perhaps from something genetic—the Bast ables had a few cattle and knew all about freemartins—or perhaps from example, Ornery grew into what the farm people called a crower, a boyish girl, one who liked boyish things, a scrambler over, a climber up, a rider of horses and tamer of creatures.