skunner

I see no good reason for rejecting these convenient alternatives; but nevertheless I have obsequiously bowed to the autocrat and taken a skunner to the words -- the only literary snobbishness of which I am conscious.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

For myself, I had ta'en a skunner at mankind, an 'womankind, too; so we lived wi' the

The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Archibald Webb 1859

Ever since I was the height of a three-fut rule I've had a skunner at the settlements and a love for the wilderness that I couldn't overcome nohow.

The Pioneers 1859

So that readily they do not skunner (372) at courses approven of God.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

Prentises, and not well inough founded yet, in that fiendlie follie: or else remembring of that horrible promise they made him, at their last meeting, they might skunner at the same, and preasse to call it back.

Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

Well, after it was put in the Mericy Cordial Mendicants’ Sitter-dag-Zindeh – Munaday Wakeschrift (for once they sullied their white kidloves, chewing cuds after their dinners of cheeckin and beggin, with their show us it here and their mind out of that and their when you’re quite finished with the reading matarial), even the snee that snowdon his hoaring hair had a skunner against him.

Finnegans Wake 2006

For euen at their publick conuentiones, he appeares to diuers of them in diuers formes, as we haue found by the difference of their confessiones in that point: For he deluding them with vaine impressiones in the aire, makes himselfe to seeme more terrible to the grosser sorte, that they maie thereby be moued to feare and reuerence him the more: And les monstrous and vncouthlike againe to the craftier sorte, least otherwaies they might sturre and skunner at his vglinesse.

Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595