crockery
nounUK /ˈkɹɒkəɹi/ · US /ˈkɹɑk(ə)ɹi/
Etymology
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”).
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:
Usually Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from.
- Synonyms
- crockeryware, crockware, crockery, ware
- Derived terms
- crockeryware
- Related terms
- crock, crocker, crock of shit, crock pot, dishware
- Hypernyms
- serveware, servingware, tableware
- Hyponyms
- Individual items, plate, dish, bowl, cheeseboard, platter, pudding bowl, salad bowl, soup bowl, toast rack, tray