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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: ordinary

ornery

 adjective
     
or‧ne‧ry American English
behaving in an unreasonable and often angry way, especially by doing the opposite of what people want you to do:
an ornery kid
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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