concern n also kinsarn [phonetics unavailable]. Cp PARTRIDGE ~ 'genitals' (1840-). Scrotum of an animal, inflated for use as a football.
   T 33-641 A kinsarn would be the sack of a buck sheep, or a bull, skinned out and a bladder put into it and blowed up, like a football. All hands would be out kicking that on a Christmas. 1974 SQUIRE 39 Another favourite pastime for boys and young men was 'kicking the concern,' (in the dialect of the day it was 'kickin the kin-sarn')... The scrotum was taken from a large bull-hide, the skin stretched and dried. Into this was placed a pig's bladder which had been immersed in a salt brine for several days to toughen it. It was blown up tight and the pouch drawn together tightly with strong twine.

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