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scunner

scunner verb: to be sick of.

Verb

scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)

  1. To be sick of.
  2. (Northumbria) To dislike.
  3. (Northern Ireland, Scotland) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
    • But maybe she'd just got scunnered with Glasgow, fucked off to try her luck someplace else.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 123

Noun (1)

scunner (countable and uncountable, plural scunners)

  1. (Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
  2. (North, Yorkshire, derogatory) A young chav.

Noun (2) capitalized: Scunner

Scunner (plural Scunners)

  1. The NATO reporting name of the R-1 ballistic missile built by the Soviet Union.

scunner meaning in Tamil and Bengali

scunner in Tamil

கடுவெறுப்புறுகை

scunner in Bengali

বিরক্ত হওয়া, অপছন্দ করা, ঘৃণা, বিরক্তি তৈরি করা, অপছন্দ, বিরাগ

Synonyms of scunner

Forms of scunner

Verb
third-person singular presentscunners
present participlescunnering
past participlescunnered
pastscunnered
Noun
pluralscunners
pluralScunners

Origin of scunner

Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner (“to shrink back; flinch”), from Middle English skoneren (“to feel sick or disgusted”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English scurnen (“to flinch”), English scare, English scorn.

Questions about scunner

What does scunner mean?
Scunner means to be sick of.
What is scunner in Tamil?
Scunner in Tamil is கடுவெறுப்புறுகை. See Scunner meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scunner?
Scunner can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of scunner?
The past tense of scunner is scunnered.

Words near scunner in the dictionary

  1. scungilli
  2. scungillis
  3. scunging
  4. scungy
  5. scunned
  6. scunner
  7. scunnered
  8. scunnering
  9. scunners
  10. scunnersome
  11. scunning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scunner (page history and authors); Scunner (page history and authors); scunner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scunner (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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