网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 ornery
释义
ornery
adjective
US
uk
/ˈɔː.nər.i/us
/ˈɔːr.nɚ.i/
likelyto getangryandarguewithpeople:
脾气坏的；爱争吵的
He had been in an ornerymoodallday,arguingwith everyone who got in his way.他一整天脾气都很坏，跟每个妨碍了他的人都发生了争吵。
Synonyms
cantankerous
crotchetyinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Bad-tempered
  • argumentative
  • bad-tempered
  • be hell on wheelsidiom
  • be like a bear with a sore headidiom
  • be spoiling for a fightidiom
  • grumpily
  • grumpiness
  • grumpy
  • have a short fuseidiom
  • hell
  • petulant
  • petulantly
  • pugnacious
  • pugnacity
  • quarrelsome
  • testily
  • testiness
  • testy
  • tetchily
  • tetchiness
See more results »
(Definition oforneryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ornery| American Dictionary

ornery
adjective
infml
us
/ˈɔr·nər·i/
tendingto getangryandarguewithpeople:
He’s ornery andopinionated, but he doesn’tlie.
(Definition oforneryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofornery

ornery
This important insight illuminates and explains responses and behavior that otherwise seem peculiar,ornery, or perverse.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But we are a notoriouslyorneryand self-willed flock.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
No one has the inside track on which of dozens, perhaps hundreds, ofornery, obstreperous, unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall-walking millions.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Robby and his men have a confrontation with anornerysteer that teaches them just how dangerous cowboy work can be.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word "peevish", meaningorneryor ill-tempered.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
He was often described as having grown moreornerywith age.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These angels are demonic andorneryand concerned that their error be found out.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Anornerymale centaur whose equine portion is beautiful but whose human portion is ugly and brutish.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
His problem, it turns out, is that he is an unscrupulous, treacherous, selfish, greedy, lying, thieving scoundrel, and at the same time an irascible,ornery, cantankerous, ill-mannered, bad-tempered old grouch.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Mickey then uses his tricks to get back at theorneryduck.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The crowd was gettingornery.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Forsyth's feistiness earned a reputation for a quick temper and for beingornery, a lover of a good argument.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
She wasn't really mean, but plumbornery.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/ornery##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/28 1:07:58