crockery

English
WOTD – 13 May 2021

Etymology
A set of crockery (sense 2) by the Japanese ceramic designer Masahiro Mori.

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”).

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒkəɹi/, /ˈkrɒkɹi/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɑk(ə)ɹi/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒkəɹi, (General American) -ɑkəɹi
  • Hyphenation: crock‧e‧ry

Noun

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.

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References
  1. “crockery, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018; “crockery, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. “crokke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. “crock, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “crock1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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