different between stunner vs scunner

English

Etymology

stun +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n?(r)

Noun

stunner (plural stunners)

1. (colloquial) Anything that is stunning.
   1. (colloquial, variant spelling "stunna") A woman of stunning beauty (often hyperbolically), a knockout.
2. (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.
3. (science fiction) A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
4. A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.

Translations

Derived terms

• put the stunners on

Anagrams

• runnest, runnets

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner (“to shrink back; flinch”), from Middle English skoneren (“to feel sick or disgusted”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun +? -er (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English scurnen (“to flinch”), English scare, English scorn.

Verb

scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)

1. To be sick of.
2. (Northumbria) To dislike.
3. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

Noun

scunner (plural scunners)

1. (Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
2. (North Yorkshire, derogatory) An urban youth usually associated with trouble or petty crime; a young chav.

Synonyms

• charva, charver (Tyneside dialect)
• chav
• scally

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• cunners

Scots

Verb

scunner (third-person singular present scunners, present participle scunnerin, past scunnert, past participle scunnert)

1. to be very tired, to be knackered