This week’s theme
Which came first, noun or verb?

This week’s words
truffle
scunner
tomcat
whinge
nitch

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PRONUNCIATION:

(SKUHN-uhr)

MEANING:

verb tr.:	To disgust or sicken.
verb intr.:	To feel disgust or to flinch.
noun:	1. Dislike or disgust.
	2. A rascal; nuisance.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Scots scunner/skunner (to shrink back). Earliest documented use: verb: 1425, noun: 1512.

USAGE:

“The smell was so scunnering it made him want to puke up.”
Obituary: Stanley Robertson; The Economist (London, UK); Sep 5, 2009.

“Perhaps if she did not call her a scunner right off, they might be friends.”
Marti Talbott; A Time of Madness; MT Creations Corporation; 2011.

See more usage examples of scunner in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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