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单词 scunner
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scunnern.

Brit. /ˈskʌnə/, U.S. /ˈskənər/, Scottish English /ˈskʌnər/
Forms: 1600s, 1800s skunner, 1700s skonner, 1700s–1800s sconner, Middle English–1500s, 1700s– scunner.
Etymology: < scunner v.
Originally Scottish and northern.
1. Originally: a loathing disgust. Now frequently in a milder sense: a grudge, repugnance, dislike, esp. in the phrase to take a scunner at, against, or to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun]
loathc1175
unlikinga1398
mislovinga1500
scunner?a1513
misliking1563
recess1567
mislikea1569
quarrel1579
underliking1581
ill liking1586
disaffection1599
dyspathy1603
exception1604
aversation1612
disrelish1613
unrelishness1615
misaffection1621
averseness1622
distastefulnessa1625
disaffectedness1625
disrelishing1692
eloinmenta1763
unwantedness1955
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 154 For he in hart tuke sic a scunner.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 106 We might have mist a beastly blunner, Had we not spewed out our skunner, Against this Test.
1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 29 It was enough to gi' a warsh-stamack'd body a scunner.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. iii. 73 I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her.
1881 R. G. White Words & their Uses (ed. 3) 252 Cultivated and well-meaning people sometimes take a scunner against some particular word or phrase.
1900 R. J. Muir Myst. Muncraig ii. 21 He had never told his weakness to his brother, having had a ‘scunner’ against doing so.
1911 F. E. Crichton Soundless Tide ii. 20 He tuk some soort of a scunner til her, an' now he's just left her sittin'.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood i. 21 You'll give our young brother a scunner of the place.
1935 L. Kerr Woman of Glenshiels xiii. 207 It fair gies ye the scunner the way they all grumble.
1957 V. Palmer Seedtime ii. 15 He remembered he had taken a scunner against McCoy when he had flown down to her wedding.
1964 Scotsman 12 Nov. 5 Many of them have taken a scunner at religion because they took a scunner at it at school.
1974 P. 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.
1977 L. 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. Scottish dialect.
a. Of persons: a nuisance, a pest, a good-for-nothing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > one who or that which harasses
pursuera1382
running sore1453
pesta1522
gall1537
grater1549
plaguer1598
afflicter1600
inflicter1605
a thorn in the flesh or side1611
incubus1648
cumber1669
harasser1707
scunner1796
tin kettle1796
pester1810
pesterer1824
baitera1845
pestilence1886
nudnik1916
1796 J. Lauderdale Coll. Poems Sc. Dial. 91 Some poor waff detested scunner.
1899 Shetland News 11 Feb. 7/3 Yon black pairts is whaur som' o' da scunners o' boys is been makkin' slides.
1926 W. Queen We're a' Coortin iii. i. 69 Ye wee, bowly-leggit scunner ye.
1940 Horizon 11 Nov. 243 He was aye sittin' in ma road. A fair scunner!
1958 Banffshire 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation > one who or that which annoys
noyera1382
annoyancec1405
offender?a1425
fretter?1504
traik1513
vexer1530
annoying1566
annoyer1577
plagueship1628
annoyancer1632
disobliger1648
nuisance1661
galler1674
bug1785
torment1785
botheration1801
nark1846
scunner1865
bother1866
botherer1869
crucifier1870
dinlo1873
bastard1919
skelf1927
dick1966
wazzock1976
knob jockey1989
1865 J. Horne Poems 24 Faigs, borrowed money is a sconner.
1917 A. 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.’
1926 W. Queen We're a' Coortin i. i. 10 It's a richt scunner walkin' up that long avenue tae the big hoose.
1947 H. W. Pryde 1st Bk. McFlannels i. 4 Ah thocht the room floor was bad, but this is a fair scunner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

scunnerv.

Brit. /ˈskʌnə/, U.S. /ˈskənər/, Scottish English /ˈskʌnər/
Forms: α. Middle English, 1600s, 1800s skunner, Middle English skoner, Middle English scowner, skowner, scouner, 1700s sconner, 1600s scunder, 1600s– scunner; β. 1500s skynner, skinner.
Etymology: Of obscure origin. The sense naturally suggests connection with shun v., but there is no variant with sh- , and no cognate verb in Scandinavian. The suffix is apparently the frequentative -er suffix5. But compare the earlier synonym scurn v.
Scottish and northern.
1. intransitive. (a) To shrink back with fear, to flinch. Obsolete. (b) To be affected with violent disgust, to feel sick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > cower or flinch
wondec897
shuna1000
blencha1250
cowerc1300
scunnerc1425
cringea1525
to play couch-quaila1529
quail1544
winch1605
dwindle1612
blank1642
shy1650
scringec1700
funk?1746
flinch1883
curl1913
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. xvi. 1451 Syne faynt of kynde al women was, And mekil skonerande for to se blude.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 651 Bot thai..skunnyrrit [1489 Adv. scounryt] tharfor na-kyn thing, Bot went stoutly till assalyng.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) v. 201 Bot thai war skownrand [1487 St. John's Cambr. schonand] wonder sar Sa fer in-to Scotland for to far.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 47 The rest of the Douglassis skynnrit [v.r. skinnerat], thinking the marieage to be wnlesum.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 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.
c1643 R. Baillie in Sc. Metr. Psalter (1864) i. iii. 36/2 Seducers, in this land, have drawne on there followers to scunder at and reject our whole psalmes in meeter.
a1728 A. Ramsay Fables xix. 8 Their sickly stamacks scunner'd at the prey.
1786 R. Burns Poems 76 And yill an' whisky gie to Cairds, Until they sconner.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 495 It's no features, though they're bad aneuch in general, but the expression that makes me skunner.
1894 S. R. Crockett 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. transitive. To disgust, sicken.
ΚΠ
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxviii. 268 It was aye ‘oor Patie's this’, an' ‘oor Patie's that’, till it wud 'a scunner't a tyke.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 282 It always scunnered me, for I aye liked things tidy.

Derivatives

ˈscunnering adj. sickening.
ΚΠ
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 513 When it's fairly on lowe, its thick and steaming scent wad smother the scunnering smell o' an acre o' corses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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