Scunner

For some reason Field had taken what the Scotch call a scunner to ex-President Hayes, whom he regarded as a political Pecksniff. ❋ Thompson, Slason (1901)

Where a disgust, or, as the Scotch call it, a "scunner," is taken at any food, especially with children, they should never be forced to eat it. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)

Scotch milliner across the road took what she called a "scunner" at the silk and muslin flowers, with their odious starchy, stuffy smell, and wondered where the farmer was, who two years ago had asked her to marry him. ❋ Unknown (1921)

a kind of "scunner" at this poor old hotel of magnificent distances and the lingering, doddering, unwashed old men who acted as chambermaids. ❋ Morley Roberts (1899)

'kings of finance' -- then I suddenly took a 'scunner' as we Scots say, at the whole lot, and hated and despised myself for ever so much as thinking that it might serve my own ends to become their tool. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

With sound cutting out and shrieking feedback, the actors soldiered on, and it didn't ruin the performance, but it was a right scunner, cause that matinee show was kicking arse up till that moment. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

And Miss Lucy Ashton, that grudged when an honest woman came near her — a taid may sit on her coffin that day, and she can never scunner when he croaks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And, none of us expect him to be loving -- she has a massive blind spot for the wee scunner -- but man, is he ungracious. ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)

Still from Harriets patently expedient self interets this is the kind of contempt for democracy and plain speaking that's sure to endear her to the malevolent scunner from Fife. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Get youse fixed up yet, even Andy over there, the big scunner. ❋ Adrian McKinty (2007)

She gleaned nothing from the exercise other than the crime scene team's taking a decided scunner to her. ❋ George, Elizabeth (1996)

“Anyone with a scunner on the Colonel, would you say?” ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1972)

He had booked seats for us on the airline to Adelaide but I didn't want to fly; I had a scunner against flying at that time which took about two years to fade. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1955)

Holidays are juist a perfeck scunner, as far as I've haen to do wi 'them; an' as for the rest -- I'm shure I'm aye tireder efter a holiday than at the tailend o 'a hard day's wark. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

In these days I would scunner at the very word, if you know what that means, M. M.ntaiglon. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Most unfortunately, too, the laird took a scunner at the minister of the parish of Abbotrule. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

I shook my head, and laid hold of my saddle to remount, for the eerie communication, the loneliness of the spot, and the isolation of the drifting snowflakes had all combined to give me a 'scunner.' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)