conker
1 synonym for conker, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (British) The hard, shiny brown seed of the horse chestnut tree, used to play a children's game.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
As a term for horse chestnut, derived from the name of the game conkers, which came first. Theories for the original meaning include 19th-century dialect conker (“snail-shell”) (the game of conkers was originally played using snail-shells), from conch + -er, or a variant of conquer.
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