How To Use Scunner In A Sentence
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And far from bored, 'scunnered' implies loathing, repugnance or disgust.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he does harbour this horrible dread of dentistry which became a real scunner when he suffered a bout of toothache.
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If Salmond was scunnered with Scotland, why not let him have a rest in Westminster?
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'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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Somebody might inform him that while he may know the Danish and English words for the feelings he has experienced this week, he should be aware they could best be described, in Scottish terms, as scunnered.
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I'm also scunnered with talking about cross-dressing and engaging in the whole ‘should men wear skirts’ debate, feeling as I do that it merely illustrates for the umpteenth time that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
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I look at the old country as it was in my youth and as it is today and, to use a fine Scots word, I am scunnered.
The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself « Isegoria
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Scunnered with the malign Scottish press, scunnered with his own backbenchers, scunnered with the amateurism and ineptness of the parliament.
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I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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Scotch milliner across the road took what she called a "scunner" at the silk and muslin flowers, with their odious starchy, stuffy smell, and wondered where the farmer was, who two years ago had asked her to marry him.
Purple Springs
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One of the ablest political figures of his generation, Salmond, scunnered, gave up on leading the parliament he had devoted his life to winning.
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I'm fair scunnered about the Holyrood project, and I have the advantage of being fair scunnered before just about anyone else in the country.
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I'm a wee bit scunnered with football at the moment, as you can imagine.
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Perhaps, he wonders, some of the core vote has been scunnered by the Lisbon Treaty shenanigans or perhaps some floating voters are concerned by a perceived Tory zeal for cutting public spending and, hence, they feel, services.
Why are the Tories so Miserable?
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The jury obviously took a scunner (an intense disliking) to the plaintiff and the plaintiff's case.
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For some reason Field had taken what the Scotch call a scunner to ex-President Hayes, whom he regarded as a political Pecksniff.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
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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.
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Wheels Within Wheels
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Labour's opponents claim they are encountering a door-step scunner factor with the government's choice of election timing, four days before Christmas.
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a kind of "scunner" at this poor old hotel of magnificent distances and the lingering, doddering, unwashed old men who acted as chambermaids.
A Tramp's Notebook
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Having watched the Libdem conference unfold over the last two days, I am fare scunnered to understand what they are up too?
Who would vote Lib Dem in a house like this?
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Oor Eck looked much the same as ever, but Nicola looked fair scunnered.
I don't really want to live in interesting times
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On a more substantive point, the American public is so scunnered by politics that you can (almost!) make a case for arguing that it's better to be in the minority than the majority in Congress.
The Problem With Contested Elections...
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they took a scunner against the United States
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For 800 of those 850 pages I was transported, absorbed, unsettled and delighted; but scunnered by the cop-out.
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Ye s 'hae't afore kirk-time, but ye maun come intil the hoose to get it, for the fowk wud be scunnert to see me workin' upo 'the Sabbath-day.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
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And Miss Lucy Ashton, that grudged when an honest woman came near her — a taid may sit on her coffin that day, and she can never scunner when he croaks.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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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
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We were one of them - coming from a scunnered [difficult] position and then getting back up there again.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, 'scunnered' means bored, 'drookit' means soaking wet and 'to haver' is to talk rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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With sound cutting out and shrieking feedback, the actors soldiered on, and it didn't ruin the performance, but it was a right scunner, cause that matinee show was kicking arse up till that moment.
Archive 2010-06-01
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I think there's a particular die hard Labour vote that will never change and will turn out, the soft vote and un-decided's are more likely to be the ones scunnered with politics and won't turn out to vote...
Glasgow NE - Is 6,129 the target?
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Roth takes an especial scunner to poor Kentucky, his locus of American evil.
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Similarly, 'scunnered' means bored, 'drookit' means soaking wet and 'to haver' is to talk rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he was as heumble as he was fit, an 'never teuk ony credit till himsel' for onything 'at he did or was; an' this she was ill pleased wi ', though she cudna help likin' him, an 'made nae banes o' lattin 'him see' at he wasna a'thegither a scunner till her.
Malcolm
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The public is scunnered enough with politics as it is.
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There's a good Scots word for McLeish's physical and mental state: he is scunnered.
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Many may criticise him for speaking out, but I am scunnered as to know how else he would have got through to that dithering and self serving political coward who resided in No11 and then moved next door to No10?
General Dannatt = Government of all the talents?
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I have had mony a thought, that when I fand mysell auld and forfairn, and no able to enjoy God's blessed air ony langer, I wad drag mysell here wi 'a pickle ait-meal; and see, there's a bit bonny dropping well that popples that self-same gate simmer and winter; --- and I wad e'en streek mysell out here, and abide my removal, like an auld dog that trails its useless ugsome carcass into some bush or bracken no to gie living things a scunner wi' the sight o't when it's dead ---
The Antiquary
