Chestnut vs Conkers - What's the difference?
chestnut | conkers |
A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea .
The nut of this tree or shrub.
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color.
A reddish-brown horse.
(uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
(idiomatic) (Often "old chestnut") A worn-out meme; a phrase, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome.
A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.
(UK) horse-chestnut
Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.
(British, uncountable) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
