2. Noun. (plural of scunner) ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of scunner) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scunners
1. scunner [v] - See also: scunner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scunners
Literary usage of Scunners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time: With Illustrations Maps, and Plans by James King Hewison (1895)
"... Jeane Campbell, who was a martyr to indigestion, had used "a salve to rub on
her breast, which was good for comforting the heart against scunners. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... declined to do so ; and, on being asked his reason, said he had " tyen a
scunner at her." "She's gotten the scunners"—taken the pet or got huffed. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"But the Major's stomach scunners at the Skye-stot—his eyes .roll eagerly tor the
hot-water—and in л couple of ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"... Blackpool) : I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state
during what number of hours out of each twenty-four tí» scunners were on duty ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Not, I fervently believe, an immoral effect,—if we set aside certain passages
which a reader " scunners " at, passes over, and obliterates from his memory. ..."
6. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"But the Major's stomach scunners at the Skye-stot—his eyes roll eagerly for the
hot-water—and in a couple of hours he is dead-drunk in his chair, ..."
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