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"He had an orneriness year-round, but especially in the summer, when he worked
in his peach orchards daylight to dusk."
I think that orneriness is a noun that means a bad mood or attitude. Lily says that T. Ray's "orneriness" is worse in the summer when he's working all day. This led me to think that it would be something that would worsen according to how irritated and tired you are. In this case T. Ray must get irritated by working all day so his mood or his "orneriness" is worsened.
I think orneriness means having a bad temper since T. Ray seems to already display this quality it would make sense that it could worsen when he gets irritated
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