Definition of Scunnering

1. Verb. (present participle of scunner) ¹

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Definition of Scunnering

1. scunner [v] - See also: scunner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scunnering

scumware
scuncheon
scuncheons
scundered
scunge
scunged
scunges
scungier
scungiest
scungilli
scungillis
scunging
scungy
scunner
scunnered
scunnering (current term)
scunners
scup
scuppaug
scuppaugs
scupper
scuppered
scuppering
scuppernong
scuppernongs
scuppers
scuppie
scuppies
scups
scur

Literary usage of Scunnering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Joseph Snowden Bell (1912)
"The experience thus obtained was, as stated by Colburn, "avowedly consulted by the engineers who laid out the scunnering section of the South Austrian line ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... rand (scunnering), both words meaning 'dreading;' shewing that skou'ner is the frequentative of schon. ^fI have no doubt that Dan. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... he returns to his vomit, yet, as dogs will do, he makes some scunnering yawns at it, and cannot persuade himself to bolt it—but to lick them up a little ..."

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