What it means
Means fed up, disgusted, or totally done with something. You can be scunnered by bad weather, a terrible result, a rubbish meal, or just life in general on a wet Tuesday in February. It carries more weight than annoyed but less than furious. A very specific middle ground of Scottish displeasure that one word captures perfectly.
Usage examples
"Absolutely scunnered with this weather, three weeks of rain and the garden looks like Loch Ness. Even the cat refuses to go outside and she is normally hard as nails."
"I'm pure scunnered with this weather, four days of rain and the forecast says more of the same."
"She was scunnered after the third bus sailed past full, so she just walked the whole way home."
Where it comes from
Scunnered comes from the old Scots scunner, a word for a wave of disgust or loathing that turns your stomach. To be scunnered is to have had that feeling settle in for good, fed right up to the back teeth. It is one of those words that sounds exactly as scratchy as it means.
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