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What does scunnered mean in Scottish speech?
Scunnered is often mistranslated as merely tired. It usually carries aversion, frustration, disgust, or being thoroughly fed up.
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Common questions
Does scunnered mean exhausted?
Not exactly. Physical tiredness may be involved, but the central idea is being fed up or disgusted.
What follows scunnered?
Speakers often say scunnered with something or take a scunner to someone or something.
Is it used outside Scotland?
Related forms occur in Ulster Scots and Northern Ireland, sometimes with different shades of meaning.