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snookery

snookery adjective: characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.

Adjective

snookery (not comparable)

  1. Characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.
    • The room's furnishings are redolent of leisured snookery evenings, joshing and cigar smoke, as the balls click, spin and glide across the faded baize.1983, Trevor Fishlock, Gandhi's Children, New York, N.Y.: Universe Books, →ISBN, page 176
    • Q-Ball is, I agree, a very snookery sounding game, but really 'anti-grav martian pool' would be of a more apt title.1987 October, “Q-Ball”, in Commodore User, number 49, London: Paradox Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82

Noun (1)

snookery (plural snookeries)

  1. A place where snooker is played.
    • One small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery."1930 April, “Temperament—Will It Make or Unmake Your Home?”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 8, number 8, Des Moines, I.A.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 102
    • Finally, Mrs. Young just had to let the soldiers know that this mess hall, this "snookery", was ceasing operations as they had no more bread and not much of anything else.1979, Calvin B. Hanson, A Gentile, With the Heart of a Jew, Nyack, N.Y.: Parson Publishing, page 160

Noun (2)

snookery (countable and uncountable, plural snookeries)

  1. (rare) Trickery.
    • He [Guy Cadogan Rothery] offers a preponderance of well established fact at a low price, and shows no sign of inventive "snookery".1916 August, “Reviews”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume XXIX, London: The Burlington Magazine Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 214
    • Zoe smiled bitterly. "You don't suppose a man like Mountclemens reported all his income, do you?" / "What did your husband think about that bit of snookery?"1966, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., pages 174–175

Examples of snookery in a sentence

  • For Pool, Archer has taken the same code he used in Snooker, taken the snookery bits out, and put the pool bits in, and some more.1992 November, “Archer Maclean's Pool”, in Amiga Format, number 40, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:
  • They're seeing what you see without the slightest hint of technological trickery, sidearm snookery, hanky-panky, or ranny-gazoo."2006, Joseph McBride, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career, Lexington, K.Y.: The University Press of...
  • Rubbing its nose in the dirt, the embarrassment it caused, sheer snookery was the message.2010, Ed Lane, A Circling of Vultures, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: FastPrint Publishing, →ISBN, page 256:

Forms of snookery

pluralsnookeries

Origin of snookery

From snooker + -y.

From snooker + -ery.

From snooker (“to fool or bamboozle”) + -ery.

Questions about snookery

What does snookery mean?
Snookery means characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.
How do you use snookery in a sentence?
For Pool, Archer has taken the same code he used in Snooker, taken the snookery bits out, and put the pool bits in, and some more.
What part of speech is snookery?
Snookery can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near snookery in the dictionary

  1. snookerer
  2. snookerers
  3. snookeries
  4. snookering
  5. snookers
  6. snookery
  7. snooking
  8. snooks
  9. snookums
  10. snool
  11. snooled

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