Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of conker.
- n. UK, uncountable 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 opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
Etymologies
- See conker (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Emmeline might have been referring to conkers, or jacks, or marbles, for all I knew that morning.”
“Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Natalya Estemirova's heirs: The women who risk all to expose Chechnya's horrors Tour de France 2009: police hunt gunman as Oscar Freire and Julian Dean are shot at”
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“Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Jamie Oliver's school dinners improve exam results, report finds School leavers want a prom just like on US television show The OC Soho House, New York: Hotel watch”
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“So when we recently learned about a traditional playground game that requires only horse chestnuts (also known as "conkers") and string, we were intrigued.”
“s latest claim: playing videogames to blame for financial crisis Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims”
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“There might be book festivals all year round, but October is as overrun as streets with leaves and conkers.”
“The air is starting to smell different, conkers roll around on the ground like drunk teenagers and the TV schedulers start to fatten us up.”
“Many horse chestnuts are in a sorry state and producing a poor crop of conkers as a result of bleeding canker disease and a leaf miner pest.”
The Guardian: Plantwatch: Autumn arrives with brilliant colour and a bumper crop of berries
“I and two friends (another girl and a boy) would play in the woods that are everywhere in Corby - sometimes the deciduous Thoroughsale Woods, where we climbed trees, and looked for acorns and conkers, sometimes the pine wood, where it was so silent you could hear twigs crackle beneath your feet, and we collected pine cones, talked, and played invented games.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conkers’.
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An Intermediate Course of Random Pala...
A third uncategorized list of words that catch my eye or fancy. Common or regional names and terms, names of foods and food preparation utensils, bird, plant and animal names, jargon words, and od...
lobscouse, skillygalee, skilly, skippaug, pauhagen, paughaden, poghaden, poggie, pog, skoodle, reef goose, reezle and 138 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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A Testicle by Any Other Name...
Please note these aren't all *strictly* testicle terms, but include other... uh... nearby parts.
Suggestions welcome.
Also, an interesting quote can be found here, and another on...stones, nuts, plums, sack, dingles, dangly-bits, ellipsoid glandul..., pinheads, junk, seeds, kernels, jewels and 77 more...
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Living in Scotland
I moved to Scotland in 2011 and promptly had to learn another language. Here are some of the best additions to my vocabulary.
dreich, numpty, bang on, bog-standard, conkers, elevenses, faff, dekko, tickety-boo, snog, chuff, bell-end
Tweets
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hernesheir (n): 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 opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the's opponent's conker before their own is destroyed. --en.Wiktionary.org Jan 16, 2009
chained_bear See also conks. Sep 12, 2008
bilby "Noun. Testicles. A conker (British) is the hard shiny nut of the horse chestnut tree."
- peevish.co.uk Sep 12, 2008