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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scunner

Scunner \Scun"ner\, v. i. To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
--C. Kingsley.

Scunner

Scunner \Scun"ner\, v. t. [Cf. Shun.] To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Scunner

Scunner \Scun"ner\, n. A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
--Carlyle.

Wiktionary
scunner

n. 1 (context Northumbria English) dislike or aversion. 2 (context Yorkshire pejorative English) North Yorkshire term for an urban youth and usually associated with trouble or petty crime. vb. 1 To be sick of. 2 (context Northumbria English) To dislike. 3 (context UK Scotland dialect English) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

WordNet
scunner

n. a strong dislike; "they took a scunner against the United States"

Usage examples of "scunner".

Fairyland for being completely pished at two in the afternoon, whatever any scunner might mphf mphf.

Why have I a scunner against Esme that I try to fight down as unworthy and potentially mischievous?

Thank God the scunner is away, although I think his replacement is going to be every bit as nasty.

I looked through a crack in the kitchen door and I saw the wee scunner put something in my drink.

I expect I could work up a fairly healthy scunner to that pair myself, if I had to be around them long.

There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner.

They, an’ all grims an’ signs an’ warnin’s, be all invented by parsons an’ illsome berk-bodies an’ railway touters to skeer an’ scunner hafflin’s, an’ to get folks to do somethin’ that they don’t other incline to.