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Definition of Scunnering
1. scunner [v] - See also: scunner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scunnering
Literary usage of Scunnering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Joseph Snowden Bell (1912)
"The experience thus obtained was, as stated by Colburn, "avowedly consulted by
the engineers who laid out the Scunnering section of the South Austrian line ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... rand (scunnering), both words meaning 'dreading;' shewing that skou'ner is
the frequentative of schon. ^fI have no doubt that Dan. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... he returns to his vomit, yet, as dogs will do, he makes some scunnering yawns
at it, and cannot persuade himself to bolt it—but to lick them up a little ..."
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