Definitions for scunners

scunners scun·ner

Spelling: [skuhn-er]
IPA: /ˈskʌn ər/

Scunners is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in scunners (cennrssu).

Definitions for scunners

noun

  1. an irrational dislike; loathing:

verb (used with object)

  1. Scot. and North England. to disgust; nauseate.

verb (used without object)

  1. Scot. and North England. to feel or show violent disgust, especially to flinch, blanch, or gag.

Origin of scunners

1325-75; Middle English (Scots) skunner to shrink back in disgust, equivalent to skurn to flinch (akin to scare) + -er -er6, with l

Examples for scunners

But she had what the Scotch call a 'scunner' against me when I was a boy.

When the three walked out together, they made a scunner run through the colony o' Larut.

Scunder or scunner; a dislike; to take a dislike or disgust against anything.

Wilson took a scunner at Aberdeen, and decided to leave it and look around him.

Was it possible that Timmy had a "scunner" against poor little Enid Crofton?

There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner.

The scunner in the foretop was near blinded by the driven snow.

"So I would if it weren't that I've a kind of a scunner of those black bog-holes," Bale said.

Them that likesna water brose will scunner at cauld steerie.

And that would give him a scunner against your story, mebbe!

Word Value for scunners
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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