scunner

Meanings

Verb

• To be sick of.
• To dislike.
• To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

Noun

• Dislike or aversion.
• An urban youth usually associated with trouble or petty crime; a young chav.

Related

Similar words

• charva, charver
• chav
• scally

Origin

• Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner, from Middle English skoneren, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun + -er. Compare also Middle English scurnen, English scare, English scorn.