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▪ I. scunner, n. orig. Sc. and north.|ˈskʌnə(r)|
Forms: 7, 9 skunner, 8 skonner, 8–9 sconner, 5–6, 8– scunner.
[f. scunner v.]
1. Orig., a loathing disgust; now freq. in a milder sense: a grudge, repugnance, dislike, esp. in the phrase to take a scunner at, against, or to.
a1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvii. 34 In harte he tuke ȝit sic ane scunner. 1697W. Cleland Poems 106 (Jam.) We might have miss'd a beastly blunner, Had we not spewed out our skunner Against this Test. 1755R. Forbes Ajax, etc. 29 It was enough to gi' a warsh-stamack'd body a scunner. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. ii, I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her. 1881R. G. White Words & Uses (ed. 3) 252 Cultivated and well-meaning people sometimes take a scunner against some particular word or phrase. 1900R. J. Muir Mystery Muncraig ii. 21 He had never told his weakness to his brother, having had a ‘scunner’ against doing so. 1911F. E. Crichton Soundless Tide ii. 20 He tuk some soort of a scunner til her, an' now he's just left her sittin'. 1927J. Buchan Witch Wood i. 21 You'll give our young brother a scunner of the place. 1935L. Kerr Woman of Glenshiels xiii. 207 It fair gies ye the scunner the way they all grumble. 1957V. Palmer Seedtime ii. 15 He remembered he had taken a scunner against McCoy when he had flown down to her wedding. 1964Scotsman 12 Nov. 5 Many of them have taken a scunner at religion because they took a scunner at it at school. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird ix. 123 He had taken a scunner to me... What had soured him on me..had been Jake's replacing him with me. 1977L. Meynell Hooky gets Wooden Spoon xiii. 152 Thirty per cent of the calls..originated in personal spite, someone had taken a scunner against the next-door neighbours.
2. Sc. dial.
a. Of persons: a nuisance, a pest, a good-for-nothing.
1796J. Lauderdale Poems 91 Some poor waff detested scunner. 1899Shetland News 11 Feb. 7/3 Yon black pairts is whaur som' o' da scunners o' boys is been makkin' slides. 1926W. Queen We're a' Coortin iii. i. 69 Ye wee, bowly-leggit scunner ye. 1940Horizon 11 Nov. 243 He was aye sittin' in ma road. A fair scunner! 1958Banffshire Jrnl. 1 Apr. 7/1 A fraisie, meally-mou'd twa-faced scunner o' a lad.
b. Of things: a nuisance, a hardship, a plague, a vexatious matter.
1865J. Horne Poems 24 Faigs, borrowed money is a sconner. 1917A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed xi. 138 ‘Bairns is just a scunner,’ said Sarah. ‘Ye'll hae to stop yer typewriter or ye'll waken them.’ 1926W. Queen We're a' Coortin i. i. 10 It's a richt scunner walkin' up that long avenue tae the big hoose. 1947H. W. Pryde 1st Bk. McFlannels i. 4 Ah thocht the room floor was bad, but this is a fair scunner.
▪ II. scunner, v. Sc. and north.|ˈskʌnə(r)|
Forms: α. 4, 7, 9 skunner, 4–5 skoner, 5 scowner, skowner, scouner, 8 sconner, 7 scunder, 7– scunner; β. 6 skynner, skinner.
[Of obscure origin.
The sense naturally suggests connexion with shun v., but there is no variant with sh-, and no cognate verb in Scandinavian. The suffix is app. the frequentative -er5. But cf. the earlier synonym scurn v.]
1. intr.
†a. To shrink back with fear, to flinch.
b. To be affected with violent disgust, to feel sick.
1375Barbour Bruce v. 201 (Edin. MS.) Bot thai war skownrand vounder sair Sa fer in Scotland for to fair. Ibid. xvii. 651 Bot thai..skunnyrrit [v.r. scounryt] tharfor na-kyn thing, Bot went stoutly till assalyng. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. xvi. 1451 Syne faynt of kynde al women was, And mekil skonerande for to se blude. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 47 The rest of the Douglassis skynnrit [v.r. skinnerat], thinking the marieage to be wnlesum. 1635T. Jackson Creed viii. xxx. 354 The Jew..perhaps would not so much as have scunnered at the Altar, if our Saviour had beene offered upon it, specially in the Temple. c1643R. Baillie in Sc. Metr. Psalter (1864) 36/2 Seducers in this land have drawne on their followers to scunder at and reject our whole psalmes in meeter. a1728Ramsay Fable xix. 8 Their sickly stamacks scunner'd at the prey. 1786Burns To James Smith xxii, And yill an' whisky gie to Cairds, Until they sconner. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 121 It's no features, though they're bad aneuch in general, but the expression that makes me skunner. 1894Crockett Stickit Minister 121 When he preached on the Sabbath he gied the fowk no gospel to ca' gospel, but he did mak them scunner with the Law.
2. trans. To disgust, sicken.
1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 216 It was aye ‘oor Patie's this’, an' ‘oor Patie's that’, till it wud 'a scunner't a tyke. 1901G. Douglas Ho. Green Shutters 282 It always scunnered me, for I aye liked things tidy.
Hence ˈscunnering ppl. a., sickening.
1820Blackw. Mag. Aug. 513 When it's fairly on lowe, its thick and steaming scent wad smother the scunnering smell o' an acre o' corses. |