Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scunner v.

[scunner n.]

to arouse hostility; often in passive.

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2009
[Scot]Fife Herald 29 June 16/1: ‘Wha scunner and carp at the “pure”’.
[UK]Arbroath Herald 28 Apr. 2/4: ‘I was fair scunnered at Tammas the day’.
[Scot]Dundee Eve. Teleg. 7 May 4/5: Feich! Sic stinkin’ trash steered by their lang tongues wad scunder a soo!
[Ire]L. Doyle Dear Ducks 98: He clean scunnered people with ‘his son Dick in the dhragoons’.
[Scot]A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston’s (1991) 2: Whatever else has often been said about them, and however scunnered some of the tenants may at times have been, they were, and are, versatile houses.
[Scot]I. Rankin Set in Darkness 94: ‘I really can’t be scunnered,’ he’d say when she’d finished and she’d start hitting him with a cushion.
www.bristol.indymedia.org 20 Oct. 🌐 [heading] It’s a Fair Cop. Inspector’s Honesty Scunners G8 Case in Glasgow.
[Scot]L. McIlvanney All the Colours 171: Of course he’d get scunnered.