| 单词 | to take a scunner at, against, or to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a scunner at, against, or to 1. Originally: a loathing disgust. Now frequently in a milder sense: a grudge, repugnance, dislike, esp. in the phrase to take a scunner at, against, or to. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun] loathc1175 unlikinga1398 mislovinga1500 scunner?a1513 misliking1563 recess1567 mislikea1569 quarrel1579 underliking1581 ill liking1586 disaffection1599 dyspathy1603 exception1604 aversation1612 disrelish1613 unrelishness1615 misaffection1621 averseness1622 distastefulnessa1625 disaffectedness1625 disrelishing1692 eloinmenta1763 unwantedness1955 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 154 For he in hart tuke sic a scunner. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 106 We might have mist a beastly blunner, Had we not spewed out our skunner, Against this Test. 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 29 It was enough to gi' a warsh-stamack'd body a scunner. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. iii. 73 I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her. 1881 R. G. White Words & their Uses (ed. 3) 252 Cultivated and well-meaning people sometimes take a scunner against some particular word or phrase. 1900 R. J. Muir Myst. Muncraig ii. 21 He had never told his weakness to his brother, having had a ‘scunner’ against doing so. 1911 F. E. Crichton Soundless Tide ii. 20 He tuk some soort of a scunner til her, an' now he's just left her sittin'. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood i. 21 You'll give our young brother a scunner of the place. 1935 L. Kerr Woman of Glenshiels xiii. 207 It fair gies ye the scunner the way they all grumble. 1957 V. Palmer Seedtime ii. 15 He remembered he had taken a scunner against McCoy when he had flown down to her wedding. 1964 Scotsman 12 Nov. 5 Many of them have taken a scunner at religion because they took a scunner at it at school. 1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird ix. 123 He had taken a scunner to me... What had soured him on me..had been Jake's replacing him with me. 1977 L. Meynell Hooky gets Wooden Spoon xiii. 152 Thirty per cent of the calls..originated in personal spite, someone had taken a scunner against the next-door neighbours. < as lemmas |
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