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ornery

ADJ เจ้าอารมณ์  อารมณ์บูด  cantankerous mean jao-ar-rom

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ornery

or ner y |ˈôrn (ə )rē ˈɔrn (ə )ri | ▶adjective informal bad-tempered and combative: some hogs are just mean and ornery. • stubborn: taking the singer's ornery radicalism in a different direction. DERIVATIVES or ner i ness noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: variant of ordinary, representing a dialect pronunciation.

 

Oxford Dictionary

ornery

ornery |ˈɔːnəri | ▶adjective N. Amer. informal bad-tempered or difficult to deal with: an ornery old military man. DERIVATIVES orneriness noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: variant of ordinary, representing a dialect pronunciation.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ornery

ornery adjective they finally realized that his illness was what had made him so ornery: grouchy, grumpy, cranky, crotchety, cantankerous, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, dyspeptic, irascible, waspish; truculent, cussed, stubborn.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ornery

or ner y /ɔ́ː r n (ə )ri /形容詞 ⦅米 おどけて ⦆怒りっぽい, 意地の悪い, さもしい (mean 2 ).

 

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