mod con
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7.1
- noun
- /mɒd kɒn/
- UK
:
comodidad moderna
- Many families today look for houses equipped with mod cons like dishwashers and high-speed internet.
Examples
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Geez, I bet you got all the mod cons.
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The truth is that white people will either form an ethnostate, or ethnostates, somewhere, with all the mod cons, or they will perish in the multiracial melting pot.
Blog text (25) -
The new apartment has all the modern conveniences, including central heating and other mod cons.
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When renovating the kitchen, she insisted on adding all the necessary mod cons for better functionality.
Antonyms
How Convenient
Surface Forms
Morphology
mod + con
This is a clipped colloquial form of 'modern convenience(s)', so the sense is partially recoverable from 'mod' (modern) and the intended noun 'con' (convenience), but 'con' is not a full word here and its derivation is not obvious without exposure. Because the meaning depends on recognizing the clipping and idiomatic contraction rather than straightforward compositional rules, it is only partially predictable for learners.
Etymology
Mod con is a short form of 'modern conveniences' that people used in old house ads to describe comforts like running water or central heating. People shortened 'modern' to mod and 'conveniences' to con, so the phrase became a quick way to mean a home feature that gives comfort or convenience.