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onkers

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Horse chestnut seeds - i.e. conkers. The cry "Any any onkers..." was a ritual in the right season. It meant "Who wants a game of conkers?" This is a ludicrously archaic chant and probably local to the one school in Dorset.

Source: circa 1970's, UK (SW)