"What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
"I'm sure we got far more good and pleasure from it than ever we got o' your bloody fore-quarter of beef, that near scunnered the bairns ere we were done with it.
"Janet's Love and Service"
Margaret M Robertson
I tried to get Tommy back after the Bolderos left, but no; he scunnered the place; she had just eaten the heart out of him, Leonore had.
"Leonore Stubbs"
L. B. Walford