I just realise that I used a word in my last entry, 'scundered', which most people won't have heard of.
Simple: its from Northern Ireland, and according to the BBC's "Voices" website, specifically from Belfast, where coinidentally, my wife hales from before her family moved to Craigavon in the late 60s (my mum-in-law has an old proddy "Shankill" accent).
It simply means 'embarrassed'.
You can have a look at other Northern Irishisms here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/voices/atilazed/a.shtml
3 comments:
Scundered means to be tired, sickened or fed-up with something. It definitely doesn't mean you're embarrassed
scundered definitely does mean embarrassed in belfast. it also definitely means skint (short of money/financially embarrassed) in derry and other northerly counties.
I think you mean hails from.
Belfast people say scundered as in embrassed and derry people say scundered as in pissed off!
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