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lengthwise you cut concave. Sometimes they are shaped the reverse way, so that, if suspicion arise, a pack so treated may be substituted for the other to the same effect. In this trick the sharper has less in his favour than in others, because the intended victim may cut in the usual way, and so cut a low card to the dealer. But the certainty of being able to cut or deal a high or low card at pleasure, gives him an advantage against which skill is of none avail. Other modes of sharping are by means of reflectors (q.v.); longs and shorts (q.v.); pricked cards (q.v.); the bridge (q.v.); skinning (q.v.); weaving (q.v.); the gradus or step (q.v.); palming (q.v.); and the telegraph (q.v.). A French term for prepared cards is les aiguilles à tricoter les côtes (Anglicé = old gentlemen, q.v.); also une cartouchière à portées (a pack of prepared cards); and les harnais = stocked broads (q.v.).—See also stock broads.
Concern, subs. (general).—The
pudenda, male or female.—See
Creamstick and Monosyllable
respectively for synonyms.
Concerned, ppl. adj. (old).—Drunk.
For synonyms, see
Screwed.
1686. Magdalen College and King James II. (Oxford Hist. Soc.), quoted in Athenæum, 8 Jan., 1887, p. 56. When Mr. Anthony Farmer came to the Lobster about eleven at night, he came much concerned in drink.
17(?). Swift. [Quoted in Davies' Supp. Lex.] (Mary, the cook-maid to Dr. Sheridan.) Which, and I am sure I have been his servant four years since October, And never call'd me worse than sweetheart, drunk or sober; Not that I know his Reverence was ever concern'd to my knowledge; Tho' you and your come-rogues keep him out so late in your wicked college.
1834. Taylor, Ph. van Art., pt. II., iii., 3. Oh, she's a light skirts! yea, and at this present A little, as you see, concern'd with liquor.
Conchers, subs. (Australian).—Tame
or quiet cattle.
Condiddle, verb (old).—To purloin
or steal. [From Latin con,
a pleonastic prefix, + diddle,
'to cheat.' Condiddled is
quoted by Grose in the Provincial
Glossary, 1787, as signifying 'dispersed.']
1825. Scott, St. Ronan's Well, ch. iv. 'Twig the old connoissœur,' said the Squire to the Knight, 'he is condiddling the drawing.'
Condog, verb (common).—To
agree with. [A facetious variation
of 'concur'; 'cur' = dog.]
Confab, subs. (colloquial).—Familiar
talk. [A contraction of
confabulation; Latin confabulatio.]
1778. D'Arblay, Diary, etc. (1876), vol. I., p. 37. We had a very nice confab about various books.
1789. Wolcot ('P. Pindar'), Subjects for Painters, in wks. (Dublin, 1795), vol. II., p. 26. For lo, with many a King and many a Queen, in close confab the gentleman is seen.
1841. Punch, vol. I., 75. Sibthorp, meeting Peel in the House of Commons after congratulating him on his present enviable position, finished the confab with the following unrivalled conundrum.
1850. F. E. Smedley, Frank Fairleigh, ch. xxv. 'Mr. Harry . . . called Mr. Archer into his own room, and they had a confab.'
1884. W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, ch. viii. This ended our confab and half an hour afterwards I stood in the hall shaking hands all round.
Verb.—To talk in a familiar manner; to chat.—See subs., sense.
