crockery

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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

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  • Hyphenation: crock‧e‧ry

Noun

crockery (countable and uncountable, plural crockeries)

  1. Crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.
  2. Dishes, plates, and other tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating it 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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