different between cutlery vs crockery

English

Etymology

From Old French coutelerie (modern French coutellerie).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t.l?.?i/

Noun

cutlery (countable and uncountable, plural cutleries)

1. A collective ensemble of eating and serving utensils such as knives, forks and spoons.
2. The business of a cutler.

Synonyms

• silverware (US)
• flatware
• see also Thesaurus:cutlery

Related terms

• cutler
• cutlass

Translations

Anagrams

• cruelty

English

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 *krukk?, *krukkô (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??k??i/, /?kr?k?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??k(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: crock?e?ry

Noun

crockery (usually uncountable, plural crockeries)

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

Hyponyms

• See Thesaurus:crockery

Derived terms

• crockeryware

Related terms

• crock
• crocker
• crock of shit (slang, vulgar)
• crock pot

Translations

References

Further reading

• tableware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia