conkerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɒŋkə/
• 韻: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: conquer

名詞

conker (plural conkers)

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

   Synonyms: (all dialectal) cheggie, cobbler, obblyonker

   • 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

     His bald spot gleams like a burnished conker.

   • 2025 October 13, “‘Nature’s Labubu’: why are gen Z ‘unboxing’ conkers?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Unboxing conkers? What on earth are you talking about? Oh wow, you really are out of the loop, aren’t you? Gen Zers are taking to TikTok to film themselves unpeeling conkers from their spiky capsules.

派生語

• conker tree

参照

語源 2

名詞

conker

1. Alternative form of kankar.
   • 1833, Edward C. Archer, Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains, page 89:

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

アナグラム

• reckon, rocken