On Mar 20, 2004, at 19:46, Jacqueline Bowhey wrote:
I grew up in south western Pa near the WVa line. My Yankee
dictionaries all
give the same definition that others have posted but to me an ornery
child/person is devilish, mischievious. So is that the meaning in a
certain
area of the country, in
I definitely agree with mischievous, although I am originally born in Indiana
and raised in Texas, so..no, I'm sticking with that. I have 8 grandkids
and one in particular is beyond ornery, he is just bad. :)
Lynn
wildgun004smate
Clarksburg, WV
p.s. DH said bad, and then changed his mind
IMO, the logic of this story's "moral is faulty; the "moral" should be
sought in an older joke (the one about the lonely female brain cell,
who found itself in a male head? With all its regular occupants being
"down there"?) Obviously, the "moral" had been written by a male, and
can/should be d
I like to be evenhandedly disagreable, so yesterday, it was a Pole in
Cannes, today, it's an American in London (and a much higher class of
joke, too )... Apologies to the source (on the chat) who, unlike
myself, *isn't* "ornery" and prefers to keep a lower profile :)
From: M.A.
An American tou
In looking up the origin of the word "ornery" (seems to have originally
come from "ordinary" then developed a meaning of its own), I came
across this:
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold
weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." -
for the gorgeous package she sent me my first tea towel with frogs
!!! quite an event . a lace friend of mine whispered 'my god ! even down
there! '...(they know you're a frog collector ..lol.. lol ..) because of
course i had to take it to my lace group . by the way they really liked the
