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scunnered
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Fed up; sick of something; disgusted. The Scots cousin of scundered, tilted towards weariness rather than embarrassment.
Scundered and scunnered are close cousins from the same root, scunner, and they split the meaning between them: the Northern Irish scundered took embarrassment, the Scots scunnered took weariness and disgust. You are scundered when you wave at a stranger; you are scunnered with the weather, the traffic and the price of everything.
Scunnered in a sentence
Scunnered usually takes with: scunnered with the weather, with the traffic, with the whole carry-on.
Third cancelled train this week.
Rain for the twelfth Saturday running.
They moved the good biscuits aisle again.
Common questions
What does scunnered mean?
Scunnered means fed up, sick of something or disgusted. It is the Scots and Ulster Scots cousin of scundered.
What is the difference between scunnered and scundered?
They share the root scunner. Scunnered, the Scots form, means fed up or disgusted; scundered, the Northern Irish form, means embarrassed or mortified.
How do you use scunnered in a sentence?
Usually with with: "I am scunnered with this weather", or simply "I am pure scunnered".
What is a scunner?
The root word: a strong feeling of disgust, or the thing causing it. A bad road, a bad referee and a bad week can all be a pure scunner.
Scunnered with the usual night in?
Mortified
The dignity-shredding party game.
Mortified is a party game for the room you're in. Your name lands on the screen, the room writes answers in secret, and the reveal does the rest. One person buys, the whole room plays.
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See also
- scundered /ˈskʌn.dəd/ adjective Mortified, embarrassed, affronted. The Northern Irish half of the scunner family.
- wick /wɪk/ adjective Rubbish, useless, disappointing. A reliable cause of feeling scunnered.
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