What is ornery?

mischievously playful person

Patrick looked like he was going to kiss me--instead, he stuck his tongue up my nose, that ornery monkey!

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Wanting to do something just to make someone else's day worse

Ornery: "I want to get hit by a car just to dent the damn thing*

Mischievous, unpredicatable, contrary. Prone to teasing, silliness or pranks but not necessarily intentionally cruel in nature.

My friend in Georgia announced plans to dye my dog pink, then had the nerve to suggest it was unfair to call him "ornery."

Person 1: Rebekah is so ornery!
Person 2: Yah! I know right!

That red headed boy is an ornery sun of a buck!

1:(n.) one who sucks the ass
see assfucker

2:(n.) hairy manbeast

3:(n.) Biggest loser of Sow

I hear that trouble likes an ornery man.

rude and crude person one that thinks highly of themself and no one else

(driving)did you see him cut me off that was hella ornery

to always be in to trouble or up to something.

"My son was so ornery when he was little. He got into everything he was not supposed to."

Stubborn, irritable, rough on the edges, a little mean, grumpy.

Adjective. The correct spelling is ornery, but many Americans say/spell as awnry.

"These ornery old guys at the job will never change"

That dog has been ornery all day.