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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner (“to shrink back; flinch”), from Middle English skoneren (“to feel sick or disgusted”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English scurnen (“to flinch”), English scare, English scorn.
Verb
scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)
- To be sick of.
- (Northumbria) To dislike.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 123:But maybe she'd just got scunnered with Glasgow, fucked off to try her luck someplace else.
Noun
scunner (countable and uncountable, plural scunners)
- (Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
- (North Yorkshire, derogatory) An urban youth usually associated with trouble or petty crime; a young chav.
Synonyms
Further reading
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Anagrams
Scots
Verb
scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnerin, simple past scunnert, past participle scunnert)
- to loathe, to feel disgust
Noun
scunner (plural scunners)
- disgust, the object of loathing
- a disappointment, caused by an unlucky or unfortunate set of circumstances.
References
- “scunner, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “scunner, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “scunner, v., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.