scunner

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verb

To be sick of.

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OriginScots scunner ← Middle English skoneren →
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Meanings

scunner1

verbscunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)

present singular third person scunners · participle present scunnering · participle past scunnered · past scunnered

  1. To be sick of.
  2. NorthumbriaTo dislike.
  3. Northern IrelandScotlandTo cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

    But maybe she'd just got scunnered with Glasgow, fucked off to try her luck someplace else.

    2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 123
nounscunner (countable and uncountable, plural scunners)

plural scunners

  1. NorthumbriacountableuncountableDislike or aversion.
  2. NorthYorkshirecountablederogatoryuncountableA young chav.

Scunner2

nounScunner (plural Scunners)

plural Scunners

  1. The NATO reporting name of the R-1 ballistic missile built by the Soviet Union.

Synonyms & antonyms

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charvacharverchavscally

Origin

  1. Middle Englishskoneren“to feel sick or disgusted”
  2. Scotsscunner
  3. Englishscunner

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.

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APA

scunner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scunner

MLA

“scunner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scunner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scunner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scunner.

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