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Definition: Scunner |
ScunnerNoun1. (Scottish) a strong dislike; "they took a scunner against the United States". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scunner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Expression using "scunner": take a scunner against. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "scunner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zët (dislike, repugnance), neveritem (revolt), mospëlqim (antipathy, aversion, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disrelish, distaste, indisposition, non-compliance, objection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, sickener). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ellenszenvessé lesz, ellenszenv (antipathy, aversion, disinclination, dislike, distaste, grudge, mislike, repugnance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unnerscay saciar (cloy, glut, indulge, Pall, palladium, sate, satiate, wreak), revoltar (revolt), repugnar (disgusted, disgusting, dislocate, loathe, nauseate), repugnância (abhorrence, aversion, backwardness, disgust, disincline, dislike, disrelish, distaste, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), enjôo (motional, nausea, qualm, queasiness, satiety, seasickness), enfastiar-se, desgosto (bitter, chagrin, discontent, disgust, displeasure, distaste, heartbreaking, heartburn, ill, regret, sore, trouble), chocar (breed, brood, bump, cannon, hatch, hit, hurtle, incubate, incubation, jar, ram, set, shake, shock, sit, startle, strike, stun). (various references) отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, abominations, allergy, aversion, disgust, distaste, hatred, loathing, odium, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion), испытывать отвращение (be disgusted, keck, loathe). (various references) zgaditi (disgust), gađenje (disgust, loathing, nausea, qualmishness, queasiness, retch). (various references) hoş karşılamama, beğenmeme (disapprobation, disapproval, dislike, disrelish), beğenilmeyen şey. (various references) sự ghét cay ghét đắng vật bị ghét cay ghét đắng ghét cay ghét đắng cái gì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scunner": scunnered, scunnering, scunners. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cunners. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cunner. | |
-2 letters: cruse, cures, curns, curse, ecrus, nurse, runes, sucre. | |
-3 letters: crus, cues, cure, curn, curs, ecru, ecus, erns, nuns, recs, rues, rune, runs, ruse, suer, sunn, sure, urns, user. | |
-4 letters: cue, cur, ecu, ens, ern, ers, nun, nus, rec, res, rue, run, sec, sen, ser, sue, sun, uns, urn, use. | |
-5 letters: en, er, es, ne, nu, re, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: scunners. | |
+2 letters: censuring, insurance, nocturnes, nonsecure, renounces, scunnered, sunscreen. | |
+3 letters: announcers, centurions, continuers, denouncers, encounters, encrusting, endurances, insurances, insurgence, insurgency, pronounces, renouncers, scunnering, sunscreens, truncheons, uncensored, uncensured, unconcerns, unscreened, unscrewing. | |
+4 letters: coinsurance, concurrents, confounders, congenerous, congruences, connoisseur, counterions, countersign, countersink, countersunk, crunchiness, currentness, enunciators, granduncles, incurrences, insurgences, nonconsumer, noncustomer, nonrecourse, nunciatures, nurturances, pronouncers, purtenances, quinacrines, raunchiness, reinsurance, rencounters, renunciates, repugnances, scuppernong, translucent, undercounts, unnecessary. | |
+5 letters: anticonsumer, canorousness, cantankerous, coinsurances, concurrences, congruencies, conjunctures, connoisseurs, conterminous, countermands, countermines, counterpanes, counterplans, countersigns, countersinks, counterstain, countersuing, crenulations, encrustation, encumbrances, infrequences, innumeracies, insecureness, insurgencies, insurrection, internuncios, mispronounce, mononuclears, neurasthenic, neuroscience, noncancerous, nonconsumers, noncountries, noncrushable, noncustomers, noninsurance, preannounces, ranunculuses, redundancies, reencounters, reinsurances, repugnancies, reunionistic, scornfulness, scuppernongs, sunscreening, transhumance, translucence, translucency, uncensorious, unchristened, uncinariases, unconsidered, underscoring, uninstructed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 75 6E 6E 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. ..- -. -. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110101 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c u n n e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0075 006E 006E 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698780807184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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