conker


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conker/ˈkɒŋkə(r)/
noun Brit. the hard, shiny dark brown nut of a horse chestnut tree.

■ (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.

– origin C19 (a dial. word denoting a snail shell, with which the game was orig. played): perh. from conch, but assoc. with conquer.
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