ornery

FREQ #29684

a. 下等的, 低劣的, 脾气坏的, 故意刁难的

发音

UK /ˈɔːnəɹi/
其它
UK /ˈɔːnɹi/
US /ˈɔɹnəɹi/
US /ˈɔɹnɹi/
US /ˈɔnɹi/

词形变化

ornerier 比较级 ornerier orneriest orneriest 最高级

别名

onery onry o'n'ry ornary

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.

    非正式
  2. 2.

    Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.

    美国 幽默 非正式
  3. 3.

    Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

cantankerous crotchety

近义相关 1

ill-natured

词源

A contracted or dialectal pronunciation of ordinary. Sense 3 (“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 sense 1 (“disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with”).

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