Usually means: Bad-tempered and difficult to manage.
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  1. onery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  (US, particularly Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of ornery. [(originally and chiefly US, especially Appalachia, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.]

Similar:
onry, ornery, awnry, honery, rantankerous, ugly, obstinacious, snarky, crotchety, noughty, more...

Opposite:
docile, compliant, obedient, submissive



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Similar:
onry, ornery, awnry, honery, rantankerous, ugly, obstinacious, snarky, crotchety, noughty, more...

Opposite:
docile, compliant, obedient, submissive



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