单词 | scunner |
释义 | scunnern. 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. 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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