What's a Cheggy?

[kenkew]

Any Yorkshirman will tell you what a cheggy is...it's a conker! A nut from the horse chestnut tree.
What's it's called where you live?

[kenkew]

[theothermarg]

here bristol way a conker is a conker and is also a conker
marg

[silverbirch]

Sorry to be boring, but it's a conker in Hertfordshire too.

I was thinking along the lines of "Doing a Cheggers" being naked sports.  (Remember that embarrasing programme he was in a few years back?)

[Carol]

Its a Cheggy in the Borders.    ::) ::) ::)

[ACE]

Horse chestnut down this way.

[SnooziSuzi]

Thanks for clearing that up!  ;D

They're just conkers here.

[Heldi]

Funnily enough silverbirch I thought it was a minature Keith  ;D

conkers here. 

[scotch-mist]

When I was at school in Glasgow it was a conker,
Budding Titchmarsh started school a month ago in N.Ireland and he calls it a conker. (The politically correct brigade haven't stopped them playing here yet) ::)  ;D

[rosebud]

Ken , do you remember a nonach, spelling??, lovely.

[Matizzy]

Plain old conker in the Midlands.

[weedin project]

It's a conker in Pompey.
:)

[kenkew]

Ken , do you remember a nonach, spelling??, lovely.

You found a stumbling block in the grey matter, Rose'...please bridge the gap.
Ken.

[rosebud]

A turnip Ken, the farmer used to chase us for pinching em , he would call out  i`ll clip yer bloody earole!!, if yer touch another. Hahahahaha.

[kenkew]

I remember nicking mangolds out of the fields. They were intended for sheep but more than one went into our stew pan!

[scotch-mist]

 Turnips= neeps in Glasgow ;D

In England---pop

In Glasgow---ginger

In N.Ireland---mineral

;D ;D ;D

[ruud]

Kenkew in holland they are called kastanje we made puppets from them.You also could use them as amunition to shoot with your selfmade catapult,but that is another story.       

[kenkew]

Bet you were a Dutch resistance fighter, eh' Ruddski?

(Scotch-mist...I ken the neeps!)

[scotch-mist]

now you've started something.......... :P

oh wants to know who Ken is ( "ken the neeps " ) ::)

;D ;D ;D

[caroline7758]

I obviously haven't lived in Yorkshire long enough- only 27 years! I've never heard conkers called cheggies! ;D

[Fork]

Boring old "Conker" here too