scunner

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Holidays are juist a perfeck scunner, as far as I've haen to do wi' them; an' as for the rest--I'm shure I'm aye tireder efter a holiday than at the tailend o' a hard day's wark.

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  1. noun A strong dislike; an aversion.

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  • And, none of us expect him to be loving -- she has a massive blind spot for the wee scunner -- but man, is he ungracious. —  Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
  • Where a disgust, or, as the Scotch call it, a "scunner," is taken at any food, especially with children, they should never be forced to eat it. —  Papers on Health
  • He's juist a perfeck scunner, nominatin' fowk against their will, an' draggin' them into publicity when they wud far raither be kickin' up some ither kind o' a row He's an awfu' haiverin' body the Smith sometimes. —  My Man Sandy
  • Holidays are juist a perfeck scunner, as far as I've haen to do wi' them; an' as for the rest--I'm shure I'm aye tireder efter a holiday than at the tailend o' a hard day's wark. —  My Man Sandy
  • But only a year ago I was on the road to making a good thing out of one or two of the so-called 'kings of finance'--then I suddenly took a 'scunner' as we Scots say, at the whole lot, and hated and despised myself for ever so much as thinking that it might serve my own ends to become their tool. —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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  1. From Middle English skunner, to shrink back in disgust, from scurnen, to flinch.

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  1. Also skunner, sconner, scouner; freq. of scun, from Middle English scunien, sconnen, from Anglo-Saxon scunian: see scun. Hence ult. scoundrel.
  2. Also skunner, sconner, scouner; from scunner, v.
 

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