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SCUNNER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scunner mean?
• SCUNNER (noun)
The noun SCUNNER has 1 sense:
1. a strong dislike
Familiarity information: SCUNNER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong dislike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Context example:
they took a scunner against the United States
Hypernyms ("scunner" is a kind of...):
dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)
Domain region:
Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)
Context examples
They, an' all grims an' signs an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome beuk-bodies an' railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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