snookery

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where snooker is played.
    — One small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery."
  2. Trickery. countable,rare,uncountable
    — He [Guy Cadogan Rothery] offers a preponderance of well established fact at a low price, and shows no sign of inventive "snookery".
形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by or resembling the game of snooker. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

snookeries plural snookeries plural

词源

词源 1
From snooker + -y.
词源 2
From snooker + -ery.
词源 3
From snooker (“to fool or bamboozle”) + -ery.
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