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ornery
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ornery as in:  is ornery when she first wakes up

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    Mickey Mouse was a dark-gold buckskin, sassy and ornery, not much more than a colt.  (source)
    ornery = ill-tempered (and so difficult to control)
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    Because we didn't have a phone, the midwife called Grandma-down-the-hill, who walked up the hill, tired and ornery, and barked that it was time for Mother to go "play doctor."  (source)
    ornery = in a bad or disagreeable mood
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    He had an orneriness year-round, but especially in the summer, when he worked his peach orchards daylight to dusk.  (source)
    orneriness = crankiness (easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue)
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    That ornery old man upstairs is very, very hurt right now and I just can't say where he's going to land after this news gets through blowing him around.  (source)
    ornery = easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue
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    But even at their orneriest, consonants were fun.†  (source)
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    Cholly, by his habitual drunkenness and orneriness, provided them both with the material they needed to make their lives tolerable.†  (source)
    orneriness = quick to get annoyed, complain, argue, and be uncooperative
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Hoerni, whose brilliance was equaled only by his orneryness, jumped jobs every few years, repeatedly butting heads with his business partners.†  (source)
    orneryness = the quality of being easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Ornery old man, she thought, starting up the stairs.  (source)
    Ornery = easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue
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    Pickett moved to the rail fence and sat there and said, "Let me tell you the story of old Tangent, which is Dick Ewell's horse, which as God is my final judge is not only the slowest and orneriest piece of horseflesh in all this here army, but possibly also the slowest horse in this hemisphere, or even in the history of all slow horses.†  (source)
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    He wasn't a huge shark, but what he lacked in size he made up for in pure orneriness.†  (source)
    orneriness = quick to get annoyed, complain, argue, and be uncooperative
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    "The pain gets … ornery," he said.  (source)
    ornery = disagreeable
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    No way I could have figured she'd pull off an alliance with the orneriest kid north of the equator.†  (source)
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    Then Little Tommy, looking ornery and offended, huffed over and planted his bony chest against mine.  (source)
    ornery = easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue
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