ornery
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More than 25 regional breweries, cideries and meaderies will be pouring, including a number of D.C. favorites; Stillwater, RAR and Union of Maryland; and Ornery, Three Notch’d and Adventure of Virginia.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016
Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ornery picket lines spread from Guess's shop on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ornery days it takes me, an alarum clock, an' Mary, to say nothin' of a wet sponge, to get her out of bed.
From Back to Billabong by Bruce, Mary Grant
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