All 9 Uses of
ornery
in
Walk Two Moons
- Sometimes I am as ornery and stubborn as an old donkey.
p. 6.8ornery = annoyed and uncooperative
- I was being particularly ornery. I wouldn't sit down and I wouldn't look at Margaret.
p. 9.5
- Your grandmother was the wildest, most untamed; most ornery and beautiful creature ever to grace this earth.
p. 70.6ornery = quick to get annoyed, complain, argue, and be uncooperative
- "I want to tell you something about Margaret," he said.
"Well, I don't want to hear it." I was feeling so completely ornery.p. 83.9ornery = annoyed and uncooperative
- It would have been perfect except for that ornery crow calling away: car-car-car.
p. 86.1ornery = uncooperative and complaining
- Gram was released from the hospital the next morning mainly because she was so ornery.
p. 91.2ornery = quick to get annoyed, complain, argue, and be uncooperative
- Whenever anyone tried to console me about my mother, I had nearly chomped their heads off. I was a complete ornery old donkey. When my father would say, "You must feel terrible," I denied it. "I don't," I told him. "I don't feel anything at all." But I did feel terrible.
p. 127.5 *
- I apologized for being ornery and for upsetting him.
p. 132.9
- They were not taking us seriously, and I felt my ornery donkey self waking up.
p. 174.4