- conkers
- conkers "child's game played with horse chestnuts," originally with snail shells, 1847, probably a variant of CONQUER (Cf. conquer). The goal was to break the other player's item by hitting it with yours.
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Conkers — est un jeu inventé en Grande Bretagne qui se pratique avec des marrons (spécifiquement les fruits du marronnier commun). Depuis le début des années 1990, la commune d Abjat sur Bandiat, en Dordogne, accueille chaque année à l automne le… … Wikipédia en Français
Conkers — For other uses, see Conker (disambiguation). A selection of fresh conkers from a horse chestnut tree. Conkers is a traditional English children s game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees – the name conker is also applied to the seed… … Wikipedia
conkers — The popular name for the horse chestnut, and for the game played with them suspended on a string. The history of the game is not quite as clear as it could be, but its outlines are known even if the precise dating is unclear. The name appears… … A Dictionary of English folklore
conkers — noun A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse chestnut (known as a conker ) suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponents conker with their own with the object of destroying the… … Wiktionary
conkers — Everyday English Slang in Ireland n chestnuts … English dialects glossary
conkers — n pl Scottish balls (in both the literal and figurative slang senses). Like its contemporary syn onym clackers, the expression borrows the name of a children s game … Contemporary slang
conkers — con·ker || kÉ’Å‹kÉ™ n. fruit of a chestnut; (British) string game played with chestnuts, type of game in which a child swings a conker with a string through it trying to break another child s conker with it … English contemporary dictionary
conkers — [treated as sing.] a children s game in which each has a conker on a string and tries to break another s with it. → conker … English new terms dictionary
conkers — Noun. Testicles. A Conker (British) is the hard shiny nut of the horse chestnut tree … English slang and colloquialisms
CONKERS — … Useful english dictionary
