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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unconned en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to study, learn”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not conned; not studied or learned.
    • I have known school-boys, who were so deeply impressed with the horrors of Monday morning, and the dread of what was to ensue from unconned lessons, and questions which they could neither answer nor understand[…] 1832, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 1, page 624:

unconned en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to deceive”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, slang) Not defrauded or tricked.
    • […] circumstances arrayed against him and the citizenry he does his best to keep unconned, are awesomely beyond control. Fraud is as old as the world — and to beleaguered Los Angeles it only seems as if the crime is a local monopoly. 1966, Walter Wagner, The Golden Fleecers, page 6:
    • For many people of low status, to be "smart" means to outsmart, outfox, outwit, dupe, "put on" or "con" others — and to remain "unconned" oneself! 1970, Helen MacGill Hughes, Delinquents and Criminals: Their Social World, page 65: