conker

• “A conker is a horse chestnut, whence conkers, the children's game.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2

• “In some towns it is the practice to remove the young nuts from the trees in July so as to prevent them from being stoned and broken by boys later on when the "conker" demand begins.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917

• “Toby Spence's apprentice David, glossy as a shiny conker in voice and manner, was impeccable.”

  The Guardian: Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House

• “It's something rubbish, like a conker or a Mars Bar," Moyles posited before revealing that his own parents had been married for 40 years.”

  The Guardian: Rewind radio: The Chris Moyles Show; The Archers; The Late Show

• “‡Conkers is a traditional English autumn game, played by schoolchildren, in which the seed of a horse chestnut, a conker, is suspended on a string and then used to strike another conker similarly suspended.”

  Simon & Schuster: Storyteller

• “Quite hysterically I read that Nut warning labels on peanut packets and rules banning conker matches and homemade cakes at school fetes could be targeted by a new watchdog set up by Gordon Brown to encourage a spirit of adventure.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

• “While the world sniggers at councils who cut down horse chestnut trees in case a falling conker should blind or maim a passing child, and which won't allow a peanut on school premises in case it proves as lethal as a knife, many parents still cling to the belief that if anything happens to their child, it's somebody else's fault.”

  Christina Patterson: Tips on Parenting from the Dad of a 'Stupid Kid'

• “But Dad bought the stool and when he got it home took the time to treat it with two different types of wood preserver and was so that it shone like a new conker and would not stain.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “But we equally have silly contests – Welly throwing championships, conker conquests, cheese rolling, beetle drives, snail races to name but a few.”

  Do not adjust your TV sets! | the POLSKI blog

• “I thought you would have a conker or two though, or maybe an acorn on yours?”

  Super clean clothes pegs

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