Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1868
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†CONFLOPTION, n. Agitation, confusion. Given in E.D.D. also for Nrf. dial.wm.Sc. 1868 Laird of Logan 323:
It came to my recollection that I had seen that the wood of the ladder was sairly wormed through, which, added to its desperate thinness, greatly increased my confloption.
[Jocular conflation of flop and confusion.]
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