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Stunner vs Scunner - What's the difference?

stunner | scunner |

As nouns the difference between stunner and scunner

is that stunner is (colloquial) anything that is stunning while scunner is (the nato reporting name of) the ballistic missile built by the soviet union.

stunner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) Anything that is stunning.
  • (colloquial''; ''variant spelling'' stunna ) Specifically, a woman of stunning beauty (''often hyperbolically ).

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    scunner

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be sick of.
  • (Northumbria) To dislike.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
  • (Yorkshire, pejorative) North Yorkshire term for an urban youth and usually associated with trouble or petty crime.

    • Usage notes

    Older scunners, i.e. young adults, might be termed (term).

    Synonyms

    * charva, charver (Tyneside dialect) * chav * scally

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