You may mean 'onery' which is a unpleasant and short tempered person in American slang, first noticed in the early 1800's

I live in Cookeville area(1.5 hours east of Nashville), and found a scorpion in my house today...Quite a surprise..maybe 1.75 inches long and onery..

The cast of The Winding Stair - 1925 includes: Chester Conklin as Onery Emily Fitzroy as Madame Muller Mahlon Hamilton as Gerard Frank Leigh as Andrea Edmund Lowe as Paul Warner Oland as Petras Alma Rubens as Marguerite Jane Thomas

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern -NE-Y. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter N and 3rd letter E and 5th letter Y. In alphabetical order, they are:

enemy

onely

onery

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern ONE--. That is, five letter words with 1st letter O and 2nd letter N and 3rd letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

onely

oners

onery