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Conkers is a traditional children's game in Great Britain and Ireland played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees—the name 'conker' is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns striking each other's conker until one breaks.
Conker, a video game franchise by Rare Conker's Pocket Tales, the first solo game in the series; Conker's Bad Fur Day, the second game in the series; Conker: Live & Reloaded, an Xbox remake of the second game; Conker the Squirrel, the main character in the series
A flat-sided conker (fruit of a horse-chestnut) is known as a cheeser, an "-er" contraction of "cheese-cutter". [49] The names applied to conkers that have triumphed in conker fights are arguably "-er" forms ("one-er", "twelver", etc ), though "conker" itself is derived from a dialect word for the shell of a snail.
Conker is a series of platform video games created and produced by Rare. It chronicles the events of Conker the Squirrel, an anthropomorphic red squirrel that made ...
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The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
It is also called horse-chestnut, [5] European horsechestnut, [6] buckeye, [7] and conker tree. [8] It is not to be confused with the sweet chestnut or Spanish chestnut, Castanea sativa , which is a tree in another family, Fagaceae .
Pronunciation / ˈ k w ɛ n t n / French: ... Quentin, a cog in the Conker video game series, also known as Carl; See also. Quentin (surname) Quenton (disambiguation ...