conker

«conker» in Mova's school dictionary: the shiny brown seed of a horse chestnut tree, found… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a conker, conkers; conkers — a game)

meaning for a pupil

1) A conker is the shiny brown seed of a horse chestnut tree, found inside a spiky green case. tree →

2) Conkers is a children's game, mainly in the UK and Ireland, where you put a conker on a string and try to break the other player's conker. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, children collect conkers in autumn and learn about horse chestnut trees and seeds. Conkers is a traditional playground game. Phrases: play conkers, collect conkers, a conker case.

examples

• We collected conkers in the park in autumn. tree →
• The conker was shiny and brown. tree →
• Grandpa showed me how to play conkers. tree →
• My conker broke on the first hit. tree →
• Conkers grow inside spiky green cases. tree →
• Don't eat conkers; they are poisonous. tree →
• I put a hole in the conker and threaded a string through it. tree →

note

Countable: a conker, conkers. Mainly British and Irish; in the USA and Canada people say horse chestnut or buckeye. Conkers are not sweet chestnuts and must not be eaten; they can make people and dogs ill. Spelling: conker, not conquer (to defeat).

In the corpora

• Granny puts conkers in the corners «for the spiders», and the cartoon squirrel remembers every nut it buries.
• The game of conkers has a world championship held every year in England.
• Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat conkers or acorns, because they are poisonous.
• In Year 3 Sam and Jake did everything together: dens, conkers, the same rubbish joke about the dinner lady's gravy.
• Jake is too cool to say he wants to play conkers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «conker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.