Originally as <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>, with “<span class="searchmatch">old</span>” for emphasis. Popularized US 1880s, particularly Northeast and Midwest, with various theories propounded. A commonly...
<span class="searchmatch">old</span> <span class="searchmatch">chestnuts</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">old</span> <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>...
liver <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> Malabar <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (Pachira aquatica) Moreton Bay <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (Castanospermum australe) oak <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (Castanopsis spp.) <span class="searchmatch">old</span> <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> Polynesian...
Castile <span class="searchmatch">old</span> cat <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> Catton <span class="searchmatch">old</span> chap <span class="searchmatch">old</span> <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> Church Slavic <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> Church Slavonic <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> Cleeve <span class="searchmatch">old</span> clothesman <span class="searchmatch">old</span>-clothesman <span class="searchmatch">old</span> cocoyam <span class="searchmatch">old</span> codger <span class="searchmatch">old</span> college...
From Middle English chesten, from <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> English ċisten (“<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>”), from Latin castanea (“<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>; <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>-tree”), from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia)...
marronnier m (plural marronniers) <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree horse-<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree (newsmedia, figurative) <span class="searchmatch">old</span> <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (A news item which, like <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> fruits, tends to come back...
chestnut (nut of the <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree) <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>, <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree, Castanea horse-<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (seed) horse-<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (tree), Aesculus (<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>): spisekastanje, ædelkastanje...
chesteyne (plural chesteynes) A <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree (tree of the genus Castanea) A <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>; the nut of the <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree. (rare) <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> wood. English: chesten (obsolete)...
(plural châtaignes) (sweet) <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> châtaigneraie (“<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> plantation”) châtaignier (“<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree”) châtain (“<span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>-coloured”) marron “châtaigne”...
horse <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> (Aesculus hippocastanum, a large deciduous tree of the <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> World) horse <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span>; conker (the large nutlike seed of the horse <span class="searchmatch">chestnut</span> tree)...