Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. emotional stress.

1832		The Day (Glasgow) 5 May 4/1: Seeing my dilemma and confloption [...] up springs my young friend on the table, kicking ower ane of the twa penny candles.
1837		J.D. Carrick Laird of Logan 136: 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, and [...] I was just diossolved into a lump of geil.
1979		Glazer & Williams Intro. to Childrens’ Lit. 490: ‘What’s all this about, auntie?’ cried the squire. ‘What's the cause of this confloption with you and Duffy?’.

2. a form of illness, e.g. a stomach-ache.

1840		Tyne Songster 60: But maw booels were put in a dismal confloption, / When aw see’d sum cheps cum wiv a bairn’s bonny coffin.
1844		Northern Star & Leeds Advertiser 6 Jan. 4/6: The ‘Alderman’ in a Confloption.
1858		Shoreditch Obs. 2 Oct. 3/2: A Pot of Beer is a first-rate receipt for Confloption of the Bowels.
1873		Fife Herald 27 Feb. 2/2: I am not myself at all, from having a confloption in my head and chest.
1879		Leeds Mercury 8 Aug. 7/6: I feels that dreffle queer [...] a state of pure confloption.

3. lit. or fig. confusion.

1870		Harper’s New Mthly Mag. 40 703: I isn’t going to hev no sich confloptions in dis yere kitchen, I tell yer. Ef yer can’t set down widoat rooting roun’ an’ wriggling so, yer’d better go out and wriggle in de pig-sty.
1879		Punch 77 54: Ow they seem to crowd around me as I sit In a state of pure confloption.
1907		A.H. Patterson Wild Life on Norfolk Estuary 252: Rarely ‘answer’ misses his footing and slips into deep water off the edge of a flat, and a right lively confloption he usually makes to right-side himself again.
1911		Outing 58 34: Followed a jump, a squawk, a great confloption of feathers, and the grouse came back to things earthly with a jerk.
1948		H. Spring There Is No Armour 7: When I had returned to the house with the news that our visitors were on the way, there was what Betsy called a ‘reglar confloption’ .

4. an unshapely, grotesquely twisted thing.

1902

H. Baumann Londinismen (2nd edn).