Conker

//ˈkɒŋkə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A horse chestnut, used in the game of conkers. British

    "His bald spot gleams like a burnished conker."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of kankar. alt-of, alternative

    "The roads are not exceeded by any throughout India; hard conker pounded, makes them as level as a table."

  3. 3
    the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
buckeyebuckeyecheggiecheggiecobblerhorse chestnut

Example

More examples

"His bald spot gleams like a burnished conker."

Etymology

From 19th-century dialect conker (“snail-shell”); the game of conkers was originally played using snail-shells; from conch + -er or a variant of conquer.

Related phrases

conker treehorse chestnut

More for "conker"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.