They took a scunner against the United States. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : She took a scunner to him. From Dictionary.com.
For some reason Field had taken what the Scotch call a scunner to ex-President Hayes, whom he regarded as a political Pecksniff. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
“Anyone with a scunner on the Colonel, would you say?”. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Get youse fixed up yet, even Andy over there, the big scunner. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
In these days I would scunner at the very word, if you know what that means, M. M.ntaiglon. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Most unfortunately, too, the laird took a scunner at the minister of the parish of Abbotrule. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
She gleaned nothing from the exercise other than the crime scene team's taking a decided scunner to her. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
We take a scunner at the place that has ill-used us. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Miss St. John, guessing at the meaning of the word scunner. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
Them that likesna water brose will scunner at cauld steerie. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
Wylie looked at him for a while with a white scunner in his face. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
Whaur she taks a scunner at a body, she hates like the verra deevil. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
The verra hert gaed frae me for hoarible dreid, an 'scunner at mysel'!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
"And that would give him a scunner against your story, mebbe!" he added. From Wordnik.com. [The Foolish Lovers] Reference
Wilson took a scunner at Aberdeen, and decided to leave it and look around him. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
"'Gruel, Netherton, juist gruel, and eneuch tae scunner (disgust) ye wi' sugar. '". From Wordnik.com. [Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush] Reference
When the three walked out together, they made a scunner run through the colony o 'Larut. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Handicap] Reference
Sometimes, too, the animals seems to take a scunner at a place and keeps out o 'the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog Crusoe and his Master] Reference
But they say he's taen sic a scunner (disgust) at his mither, that he canna bide the verra word. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
I took a scunner at this sister-and-brothering business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist holding meetings at the Glen. From Wordnik.com. [Anne's House of Dreams] Reference
(olio = olive oil, staw = make sick) (scunner = repugnance). From Wordnik.com. [a Brit different] Reference
Laddie and man, as weel you ken, you were aye a scunner to me. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
Crivens ya daft scunner, that's a crime!. From Wordnik.com. [Barking Moonbat Early Warning System] Reference
I'm feart I'll jist scunner (disgust) ye. '. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
He gives me what the Scots call a "scunner.". From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
What a scunner. From Wordnik.com. [Scrotes stole my garlic.] Reference
"there was a scunner in his een that I mislikit, as though her Grace had offended him. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
"Yon scunner?. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Courtships] Reference
"Yon scunner?". From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Courtships] Reference
She's a fair scunner! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
"But it won't make me scunner. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914] Reference
I hae ta'en an awfu 'scunner till ye! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Lady of Lone] Reference
There’s naught in me to take a scunner at. From Wordnik.com. [Krindlesyke] Reference
She said, "I had a scunner of it, then-in 1945. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
“Thon big fat scunner came tae ask me questions. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
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