Meaning
Quarrelsome, troublesome, and hard to please — not merely unhappy, as in standard English, but bad-tempered and difficult. In Jamaican use a 'miserable' person is cantankerous and always finding fault or making trouble, and a 'miserable pickney' is a mischievous, unruly, into-everything child. So where English 'miserable' means sad, the Patois sense is closer to cranky, contrary, and vexatious.
Examples
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Dat pickney miserable, him inna everyting.
That child is a handful; he's into everything.
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Di ole man miserable, him quarrel wid everybody.
The old man is cantankerous; he quarrels with everybody.
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She too miserable fi please.
She's too hard to please.
Origin
From English 'miserable', shifted in sense to quarrelsome/troublesome. See [[cross]], [[facety]].
How it’s used
Quarrelsome/troublesome/cranky (not just sad); of a child, mischievous. See [[cross]], [[out-of-order]].