scunner
(noun) a strong dislike; “they took a scunner against the United States”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)
To be sick of.
(Northumbria) To dislike.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
scunner (plural scunners)
(Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
(North Yorkshire, pejorative) An urban youth usually associated with trouble or petty crime; a young chav.
• charva, charver (Tyneside dialect)
• chav
• scally
• cunners
Scunner (plural Scunners)
The Nato reporting name of the R-1 ballistic missile built by the Soviet Union.
• cunners
Source: Wiktionary
Scun"ner, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Shun.]
Definition: To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Scun"ner, v. i.
Definition: To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.
Scun"ner, n.
Definition: A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
