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81clackers — n pl Scottish balls (in both the literal and figurative slang senses). The word, recorded in the early 1990s, was the name of a fashiona ble children s toy of the 1970s consisting of two plastic balls on a string wound round the fingers and… …
82conker — 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 dialect word denoting a snail shell,… …
83horse chestnut — noun 1》 a deciduous tree with large leaves of five leaflets, upright conical clusters of white, pink, or red flowers, and nuts (conkers) enclosed in a spiny case. [Aesculus hippocastanum and related species.] 2》 a conker. Origin C16: translating… …
84conker — noun (C) BrE 1 the large shiny brown seed of the horse chestnut tree 2 conkers BrE a children s game in which you try to break your opponent s conker by hitting it with your own …
85Easter eggs — Eggs have been linked to Easter for centuries throughout Europe, partly to symbolize new life, and partly because of their seasonal abundance; they must not be eaten during Lent, so those not used for hatching were available, preserved or… …
86conker — ► NOUN Brit. 1) the hard shiny dark brown nut of a horse chestnut tree. 2) (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 dialect, «snail shell» (with which the… …
87horse chestnut — ► NOUN 1) a large deciduous tree producing nuts (conkers) enclosed in a spiny case. 2) a conker. ORIGIN horse chestnuts are said to have been an Eastern remedy for chest diseases in horses …
88conker — n. 1 the hard fruit of a horse chestnut. 2 (in pl.) Brit. a children s game played with conkers on strings, one hit against another to try to break it. Etymology: dial. conker snail shell (orig. used in the game), assoc. with conquer …
