conkers

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996

conkers children's game played orig. with snail-shells, later with chestnuts on a string. XIX. f. dial. conker snail-shell, presumably f. CONCH.


© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.

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