What's the difference between scunner and stunner?
Scunner
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
(v. i.) To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.
(n.) A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I've become increasingly scunnered," he said, "as I listen to the SNP talk about the communities I grew up in and telling them that everybody will be better off when in truth the opposite is the case".
(2) "Scunnered" is one of those words that the chattering classes use only when they want to get down and dirty with the people.
(3) Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Despite Aitken’s references to Labour’s anti-independence stance three years ago, McAveety says there is a palpable sense that the city’s voters are irritated – “scunnered” – by Sturgeon’s renewed focus on an independence referendum, even among yes voters.
Stunner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stuns.
(n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(2) That stunner set the tone for a first round which did not follow the script that had been set by the countless mock drafts leading up to Thursday night.
(3) It was concluded that the handheld stunner can stun a bird effectively, and provided that the bird's neck is cut promptly, can kill it humanely.
(4) There will be about 70 objects and 70 portraits in the show, including Morris's portrait of his wife, Jane, a "stunner", said MacCarthy.
(5) A Remington Humane Stunner was used to deliver blows to the heads of anesthetized cats.
(6) A suicidal injury from a livestock stunner ("humane killer") serves to demonstrate the reconstruction possibilities presented by the morphology of the bolt entrance wound and the imprimata.
(7) The spontaneous EEG and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were examined in chickens before and after electrical stunning using a waterbath stunner.
(8) Ivan Perisic stunner for Croatia leaves Spain to face Italy in last 16 Read more “He is an amazing footballer,” he said after Sweden’s defeat to Belgium on Wednesday night .
(9) Broiler chickens were electrically stunned either by immersing their heads, necks and upper breast in a waterbath stunner or by immersing their heads only.
(10) A Remington humane stunner was used to deliver a blow to the left side of the surgically-exposed skull in ketamine-anesthetized cats.
(11) When currents between 120 and 250 mA were used in a waterbath stunner some birds retained their evoked responses immediately after the current was applied.
(12) Princess Diana The TV confession to beat all others, made in 1995 as a riposte to that other stunner, Prince Charles's on-air admission of adultery to Jonathan Dimbleby.
(13) This shows there are no easy games.” Dimitri Payet’s stunner rescues France’s welcome party against Romania Read more Didier Deschamps, the France manager, who introduced two strikers, Kingsley Coman and Anthony Martial, in place of Antoine Griezmann and Paul Pogba as he chased the win, admitted that there were negatives about the performance.
(14) Shea is direct, quick and strong and has been known to score a few stunners.
(15) A Remington humane stunner was used to deliver blows to the skulls of anesthetized cats.
(16) Anesthetized adult female rhesus monkeys were impacted in the middle of the sternum with a 10 kg stunner traveling at a speed of 22-25 mph to simulate an automobile accident.
(17) Paul Konchesky put the Hammers back in front before Gerrard’s stoppage-time stunner forced extra time and penalties.
(18) Correct application provided the use of penetrating concussion stunners should be preferred to applying a blow to the neck for stunning rabbits.
(19) There followed 90 minutes of similarly vulgar surprises (intercourse with the elderly, the nasal ingestion of poo), but the film's biggest shock, its most convention-rattling stunner, was saved until last.
(20) Sunderland were great in the first half, first to every ball, ensuring that City’s billionaires were kept quite and Borini scored a stunner of a goal.