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Definition of Scunnered
1. scunner [v] - See also: scunner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scunnered
Literary usage of Scunnered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine (1880)
"Syne, while I still was on the tenter, I scunnered at the new ... scunnered at—was
disgusted with. ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1880)
"Mere hymnbooks cockin' in the pews— A humanised abomination, Unfit for ony
congregation. Syne, while I still was on the tenter, I scunnered at the new ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"He never scunnered that blow on the heed (head)." Second-handed (always thus).
(At) second-hand. Seek. Look for. (Invariably.) [saek. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"'Ay, Birse,' he answers, 'and glad I am to hear you admit it, for he had you in
his eye.' I was fair scunnered at ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"... to be looked at, sneered at, scunnered at, by the best-natured of our friends
Î When he turns his attention to the other side of the room, ..."
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