From: The Day
A Morning Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashion, &c. No. 104. Glasgow, Saturday, May 5, 1832 The Political Metamorphosis - A Sair Mischanter at a Reform Meeting. P. 4
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John Powis Pinder
10/3/2023 02:14:55 am
I have (invented? and) used the word 'confloption' for about two decades to mean a device which has been 'flopped together' without thought for practicality or safety - almost a synonym for 'contraption', but worse, too Heath Robinson to be a 'device' or 'mechanism'. On a whim today I asked the internet if the word 'confloption' exists and your article came up. It seems unlikely that I would have come across the word casually in anything I might have read at any stage in my life (76 years, mostly in southern England), given the ancient northern and Scottish origin you note. Do you know of any modern uses? It is not in modern dictionaries.
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