Meanings
unconned1
- not comparableNot 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
unconned2
- not comparableslangNot defrauded or tricked.
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 651 more example
[…] 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
Origin
unconned · adjective
From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to study, learn”).
Full word history & related roots →unconned · adjective
From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to deceive”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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