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Spockery

Spockery noun: synonym of Spockism.

Noun

Spockery (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of Spockism.
    • A good deal of the practical advice is medical—how to detect the symptoms of tuberculosis, how to diagnose a pregnancy, foods to avoid during pregnancy (crabs, or the child will come out sideways etc.), lucky directions in which a pregnant woman should contrive to face on various days of the...1965, Ronald F. Dore, Education in Tokugawa Japan, page 289
    • The causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery.1966, Insight and Outlook
    Synonyms:
    Spockism

Synonyms of Spockery

Origin of Spockery

From Spock + -ery.

Questions about Spockery

What does Spockery mean?
Spockery means synonym of Spockism.
What part of speech is Spockery?
Spockery is a noun.

Words near Spockery in the dictionary

  1. Spock
  2. Spock ears
  3. Spock Generation
  4. Spock-marked
  5. Spocked
  6. Spockery
  7. Spockian
  8. Spocking
  9. Spockish
  10. Spockism
  11. Spocks

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