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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1660-1682
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Scunnering, vbl. n. [Scunner v. 2.] = Scunner n. a. — c1660 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXI 150.
A scunnering I have at the way of the English anent funeral sermons 1662 J. Livingstone in Select Biographies I 210.
I have a scunnering of heart at such ane thing 1682 Lauder Observes 304.
All the … rowing of it up and down his mouth, might be by reason of the prin, and not through any scunnering at the Test it self
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