scunner (skuner)

[Also skunner, sconner, scouner; He seems to have preserved, as it were, in the pickle of a mind soured by prejudice, a lasting scunner , as he would call it, against our staid and decent form of worship. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., iii. There gaed a scunner through the flesh upon his banes; and that was Heeven's advertisement. R. L. Stevens on, Thrawn Janet. scup1 (skup), п . [ schop , a swing, shovel, = OHG. scupha , scopha , a swing-board, MHG. schupfe , G. schupf , a push, schupp , swinging mo 5432 tion, a push, jerk; cf. G. schupfen, shove, = Sw. skubba, scrub, = Dan. skubbe, shove, push (a secondary form from the orig. verb), = D. schuiven = G. schieben, etc., shove: see shove.] A swing: a term derived from the Dutch settlers. [New York.] "What'll you give me if I'll make you a scup one of these days?" said Mr. Van Brunt. "I don't know what it is," said Ellen. "A scup ! may be you don't know it by that name; some folks call it a swing." S. Warner, Wide, Wide World, I. ii. scup1 (skup), v. i.; pret. and pp. scupped, ppr. scupping. [