crockery

From crocker (“(obsolete) potter”) +‎ -ery (suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns).^[1] Crocker is derived from crock (“earthenware or stoneware jar or storage container”) + -er (suffix attached to nouns indicating persons whose occupations are indicated by the nouns); crock is from Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms],^[2][3] from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (“vessel”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒkəɹi/, /ˈkrɒkɹi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɑk(ə)ɹi/

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• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒkəɹi, (General American) -ɑkəɹi
• Hyphenation: crock‧e‧ry

crockery (usually uncountable, plural crockeries)

1. Crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.
   • 1843, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “From Waterford to Cork”, in The Irish Sketch Book, London, Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-type Press, →OCLC, page 60:

     All the street was lined with wretched hucksters and their merchandise of gooseberries, green apples, children's dirty cakes, cheap crockeries, brushes, and tin-ware; among which objects the people were swarming about busily.

2. Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from.

• crockeryware
• crockware

• See Thesaurus:crockery

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• crocker
• crock of shit (slang, vulgar)
• crock pot

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