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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1824, 1880-1900
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JUNNER, v., n. Also chunner-.
I. v. To jolt, bump, knock against something clumsily, e.g. so as to spill or break the contents (Kcb. 1959). In fig. extensions in comb. †junner-kit, a vessel used for collecting buttermilk (Kcb.4 1900) and derivs. junrells, pl., debris of masonry, wood. etc., ruins (Kcb. 1959); chunnery, fragments, smithereens. Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 246:
And now the castles ane and a', In junrells are dung down.Kcb.4 1900:
A kicking horse may knock the cart to junrells.
Lnk. 1880 Cld. Readings (Short) 201:
The flunkey landed him on the breid o' his back amang a collection o' porcelain mugs, whereby the hale concern was reduced to chunnery an' crockin[i]tion.
II. n. A ramshackle object; something that is clumsily made and ill put together (Kcb.4 1900, Kcb. 1959).
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