DSL - SNDS2 SCUNNER, v., n. Add variant schunner
I. 4. (1) Add quot.:
*wm.Sc. 1988 Robin Jenkins Just Duffy 105:
Shit in itself didn't scunner her: it was natural, like fallen leaves.
I. 4. (2) Add to defin.: Also ppl.adj. scunnering.
Add quots.:
*Gsw. 1987 James Kelman Greyhound for Breakfast (1988) 176:
Aw naw, naw, it's no that. I just get fucking scunnered with it.
I dont blame you. These last couple of weeks! No kidding ye Brian see last Thursday? I'm standing there, got a right few quid going onto the last favourite.
*Ags. 1988 Raymond Vettese The Richt Noise 78:
When he deed we fund a hauf
feenisht paiket [of pan drops] on the bedside table.
That wad hae scunnert him, nae doot;
that, for him, wad be deein afore his time.
*Sc. 1989 Scotsman 12 May 14:
The overtime ban by drivers from BR's Southern Region has postponed the christening today of a locomotive with one of those scunnering names that trip off the tongue like an ingot of pig iron: The Institution of Mining Engineers
*wm.Sc. 1991 James Russell Grant in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 57:
Fair scunnert tae the teeth the day ye saw yirsel there
Ye hae the luk ae Lazarus gaun moon-struck owr the day
*Sc. 1992 Observer 14 Sept :
Milton, thow shuldst be living at this hour, ye'd be fair scunnered.
*m.Sc. 1994 Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay Forever Yours, Marie-Lou 17:
He wis nae mair twisted than the rest ae us...he wis mebbe jist a bit mair scunnered ...
*Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 44:
Miss Hardie's class. `Dance Around the World' wis her project. I thocht yon wad be gey scunnerin for the loons fin I saw the picters o ballerinas an Heilan dancers, Dutch clog dancers an Indian temple dancers.
*m.Sc. 1997 Liz Niven Past Presents 18:
Scunnert they ur. Cannae say A blame them,
Of course ye want tae keep yer ain schuils,
Yer ain hospitals, yer railways. An watter --- whit next?
A could fill a bucket on ma ain windae sill
It's wur watter.
*Sc. 2000 Herald 7 Aug 3:
Fish an visitors smell in three days, said Benjamin Franklin. However, he had not reckoned with bed and breakfast owners in Scotland.
The owners get scunnered if a British guest so much as plants his or her plates of meat on the welcome mat.
*em.Sc. 2000 James Robertson The Fanatic 16:
`So what have you been up to since I saw you last? It must be, what, six years? I mind you gave up on the PhD. Can't say I blame you, I was scunnered of History after one degree. Well, maybe not scunnered, just tired.'
II. 1. (2) Add quots.:
*Sc. 1988 Scotsman 15 May 10:
To use a Scots word, for which there is no adequate synonym in the English language, most people in Scotland, whatever their basic politial affiliation, have developed a scunner of Mrs Thatcher.
*ne.Sc. 1991 Alastair Mackie in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 68:
Spring that gies me a scunner, I've this
to say to ye; turnin some street corner
aa o a sudden I get stobbed thro wi the dirks
o your weird-like breerin.
II. 2. (2) Add quots.:
*wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 7:
You should see her son, if you think she's fond!
He is daft aboot the schunner, it's beyond
Rhyme, it's beyond reason or any sense at a'.
*m.Sc. 1986 Colin Mackay The Song of the Forest 116:
"I love this little acre God has given us, and I love every one of the damned cantankerous scunners who lives on it. And it is because I love it all that I am greeting."
*Gsw. 1990 John and Willy Maley From the Calton to Catalonia 16:
Sure, there's fights closer tae hame in there? A coupla they scunners up it the broo could dae wi a good doin, ah'm tellin ye.
*Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web v:
A dearie in Scots is ayewis somebody weel-loued. It's nae, it niver cud be, a creepie-crawlie scunner sprauchlin in frae anither culture, tae crush aneth the sole o yer buit.
*Sc. 1999 Herald 18 Oct 13:
The average GDP for the whole of Scotland is 98 or two points below the average for Europe. The average for Greater London is 140 or nearly half as much again. Yet they blamed the Scots for the plight of the poor in London who live in the midst of such fabulous wealth. Scunners, that's the word that springs to mind, right scunners.
II. 2. (3) (i) Add quots.:
*Sc. 1994 Herald 16 Jul 7:
People need work, whether it's delivering coal, tapping on a computer terminal, or weeding the garden. Only the most introspective among us can contemplate our navels for any length of time without a degree of scunneration setting in.
*Dundee 2000 Ellie McDonald Pathfinder 10:
The road's aye thrang wi fowk
but whaur I staun
is a scunneration tae me,
*Sc. 2000 Herald 19 Feb 29:
My favourite anecdote of James [VI & I] and his scunneration with smoking concerns the occasion when he actually demanded that one of his courtiers light up.
*Sc. 2003 Scotsman 3 May 8:
SNP shallow thinkers/strategists will now spend many a happy hour in Deacon Brodie's thinking up the killer question, oblivious to the wider picture and uncaring about the electorate's scunneration with such esoteric indulgence.
II. 2. (3) (v) Add quots.:
*Sc. 1989 Scotsman 20 Mar 14:
The sight of the Labour leader acting as a poodle to get the Tory Government out of a mess, and the Labour chairman of the education committee relying on Tory votes to expel Scottish members, while condoning the presence of English Tories, is, to put it mildly, scunnersome.
*m.Sc. 1990 Douglas Lipton in Hamish Whyte and Janice Galloway New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother 71:
Kelpie See tryin' tae gallop awa wi' yin o' they muckle virgins oan my back an' me wi' webbed hoofs an' aw --- it's pure scunnersome, pal
*Sc. 1991 Scotsman 26 Oct 2:
Scunnersome though the heid-nippin atween Glasgow and Edinburgh may be, Tom, my fear is that with the Scottish media and its markets increasingly concentrated along the Forth and Clyde axis,...
*Gsw. 1992 Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! (1993) 227:
What with pools panel experts inventing imaginary soccer results and Scottish disc-jockeys with transatlantic twangs to their verbal gibberish pretending to be demolishing --- ach, why go on? Scunnersome, that was the very word for it --- scunnersome.
*Sc. 1995 Scotland on Sunday 18 Jun 15:
A man still cannot get away with dependency culture, unless for serious physical reasons. That many able-bodied women still expect such rights is scunnersome.
*Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 14:
"My mither, unlike yours, wis a scunnersome craitur an `twad hae bin better gin I'd niver met her!"
*em.Sc. 1999 James Robertson The Day O Judgement 17:
An likewise open ivery hert
Sae awbody can see an ken
Each scunnersome an gastrous thing
Scowkin an lurkin ben.