scunner

"I don't have any inside information on how Scunner got its name," the writer added.

On the other hand, you might say a person is a scunner to mean they are just troublesome or have done something you didn't like.

Our Lothario is free with his charms, the wee scunner.

In Newfoundland the term barrelman was synonymous with the word scunner.

You can call something or a person a scunner meaning they are very odious, horrible or disgusting.

This is not always on offer because, for some reason which I can’t remember, Whitman took a scunner to Hemingway.

Mr Shepherd said: "Scunner can mean you are feeling worse than fed up.

Cloud of Spruce couldn't imagine why Marigold had taken such a scunner to the minister.

And then there is Scunner.

There gaed a scunner through the flesh upon his banes; and that was Heeven's advertisement.

Jeez what a scunner, it's frustrating to have so little progress and so little to show for the hours I'm putting in.

I took a scunner at this sister-and-brothering business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist holding meetings at the Glen.

The premise is that Super Gran has to save people whilst looking out for Scunner Campbell.

He said: "Words that are used as part of a dialect are absolutely fine - Glaswegian words such as scunner, say.

Sometimes, a solo woman on business in northeast Scotland just wants a nice dinner and a quiet evening - without some wee scunner trying to hit on her.

Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, the studios behind Pacific Rim, have not commented on the choice of scunner for a kaiju.

Scunner rigged, goes to windward like a roundshot, an' got every stitch o' canvas set, even ringtails on the main,Ireckon.' '

A Cold War Soviet Union ballistic missile system, the R-1/SS-1, was dubbed Scunner by Nato.

The Scots Language Centre in Perth confirmed that scunner is deeply rooted in the Scots language.

The titular character was played by Gudrun Ure, with Iain Cuthbertson as her nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.

The restoration took 8 years in all. For 6 of those years it served as an additional workbench when I 'took a scunner' at a seemingly impossible door gap problem.

He's juist a perfeck scunner, nominatin' fowk against their will, an' draggin' them into publicity when they wud far raither be kickin' up some ither kind o' a row.

The earlier R-1 missile had carried the NATO name SS-1 Scunner, but was of a very different design, almost directly a copy of the German V-2 rocket.

"The word 'scunner' is first recorded in the Scots language in the 14th Century and found in all the dialects, so it is a universal Scots word," he said.

His first role following his stroke was as the villainous Scunner Campbell in Super Gran (Tyne Tees Television/ITV, 1985).

"I don't have any inside information on how Scunner got its name," the writer added.

But if it turns out there is truth in these stories it wouldn’t scunner me.

On the other hand, you might say a person is a scunner to mean they are just troublesome or have done something you didn't like.

Our Lothario is free with his charms, the wee scunner.

She said, "I had a scunner of it, then-in 1945."

Anyone with a scunner on the colonel, would you say?' '

In Newfoundland the term barrelman was synonymous with the word scunner.

You can call something or a person a scunner meaning they are very odious, horrible or disgusting.

This is not always on offer because, for some reason which I can’t remember, Whitman took a scunner to Hemingway.

Mr Shepherd said: "Scunner can mean you are feeling worse than fed up.

Cloud of Spruce couldn't imagine why Marigold had taken such a scunner to the minister.

And then there is Scunner.

Scunner - a person without morals

There gaed a scunner through the flesh upon his banes; and that was Heeven's advertisement.

Jeez what a scunner, it's frustrating to have so little progress and so little to show for the hours I'm putting in.

To see him scart his awin skyn grit scunner I think,

You can scunner at something meaning that you are disgusted by, repulsed, or repelled by a thing.

I took a scunner at this sister-and-brothering business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist holding meetings at the Glen.

That's a right (or real) scunner!

Bit of a scunner, that.)

The premise is that Super Gran has to save people whilst looking out for Scunner Campbell.

In the early 1950s the 77th and 90th Brigades were also formed to operate the R-1 (SS-1a Scunner).

He said: "Words that are used as part of a dialect are absolutely fine - Glaswegian words such as scunner, say.

There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner.

Perhaps in the event of an invasion, Girl Guides were meant to baffle the enemy by performing complex marching on the beach to scunner them or something.