From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T05:15:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23348] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

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From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:56 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23280] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby


> Sean Russell wrote:
> 
> 
> > Wow, that's almost admirable.  I was just being an onry cuss.
> 
> 
> What does "onry" mean?
> 

Very American slang, usually spelled "ornery" --
probably deriving from "ordinary." Can mean
"mean, common, low-down" and other related
things, maybe even "cruel" or "irritable."

Hal