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conker

Syllabification: (conk·er)
Pronunciation: /ˈkäNGkər/
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Definition of conker

noun

British
  • the hard shiny dark brown nut of a horse chestnut tree.
  • (conkers) [treated as singular] a children’s game in which each child has a conker on the end of a string and takes turns trying to break another’s with it.

Origin:

mid 19th century (a dialect word denoting a snail shell, with which the game, or a similar form of it, was originally played): perhaps from conch, but associated with (and frequently spelled) conquer in the 19th and early 20th centuries: an alternative name was conquerors

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