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crockery

Syllables: crock·e·ry/ˈkɹɒkəɹi//ˈkɹɑk(ə)ɹi/

crockery noun: crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.

crockery: crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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Noun

crockery (usually uncountable, plural crockeries)

  1. (usually) Crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.
    • 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.1843, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “From Waterford to Cork”, in The Irish Sketch Book, London; Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-type Press, →OCLC, page 60
  2. (usually) Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from.

crockery meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

crockery in Tamil

உணவு கலன்கள், சுட்ட களிமண்

crockery in Urdu

crockery, dinnerware, tableware; any vessel used for eating
برتن bartan

crockery in Malayalam

മൺപാത്രങ്ങൾ, പിഞ്ഞാണപ്പാത്രങ്ങൾ

Synonyms of crockery

Forms of crockery

pluralcrockeries

Origin of crockery

From crocker (“(obsolete) potter”) + -ery (suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns). 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], from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).

Words formed from crockery

Questions about crockery

What does crockery mean?
Crockery means crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.
What is crockery in Tamil?
Crockery in Tamil is உணவு கலன்கள், சுட்ட களிமண். See Crockery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crockery?
Crockery is a noun.
How do you pronounce crockery?
Crockery is pronounced /ˈkɹɒkəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of crockery?
The plural of crockery is crockeries.

Words near crockery in the dictionary

  1. Crocker Land
  2. crocker sack
  3. crocker sacks
  4. crockeries
  5. crockers
  6. crockery
  7. crockeryware
  8. crockerywares
  9. crocket
  10. crocketed
  11. crocketing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crockery (page history and authors); crockery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); برتن (Urdu) (page history and authors); crockery (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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