Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to arouse hostility; often in passive.

1843		Fife Herald 29 June 16/1: ‘Wha scunner and carp at the “pure”’.
1892		Arbroath Herald 28 Apr. 2/4: ‘I was fair scunnered at Tammas the day’.
1897		Dundee Eve. Teleg. 7 May 4/5: Feich! Sic stinkin’ trash steered by their lang tongues wad scunder a soo!
1925		L. Doyle Dear Ducks 98: He clean scunnered people with ‘his son Dick in the dhragoons’.
1985		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.
2000		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.
2005		www.bristol.indymedia.org 20 Oct. 🌐 [heading] It’s a Fair Cop. Inspector’s Honesty Scunners G8 Case in Glasgow.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 171: Of course he’d get scunnered.