snookery

English

Etymology 1

From snooker +‎ -y.

Adjective

snookery (not comparable)

1. Characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.
   • 1983, Trevor Fishlock, Gandhi's Children, New York, N.Y.: Universe Books, →ISBN, page 176:

     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.

   • 1987 October, “Q-Ball”, in Commodore User, number 49, London: Paradox Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:

     Q-Ball is, I agree, a very snookery sounding game, but really 'anti-grav martian pool' would be of a more apt title.

   • 1992 November, “Archer Maclean's Pool”, in Amiga Format, number 40, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:

     For Pool, Archer has taken the same code he used in Snooker, taken the snookery bits out, and put the pool bits in, and some more.

   • 2004 June 19, Mike Gralnick, “Canadian Snooker Championships”, in rec.sport.billiard‎^[1] (Usenet):

     It's an awesome feed for those of you who have not checked it out. Chock full o' snookery goodness.

Etymology 2

From snooker +‎ -ery.

Noun

snookery (plural snookeries)

1. A place where snooker is played.
   • 1930 April, “Temperament—Will It Make or Unmake Your Home?”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 8, number 8, Des Moines, I.A.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 102:

     One small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery."

   • 1979, Calvin B. Hanson, A Gentile, With the Heart of a Jew, Nyack, N.Y.: Parson Publishing, page 160:

     Finally, Mrs. Young just had to let the soldiers know that this mess hall, this "snookery", was ceasing operations as they had no more bread and not much of anything else.

   • 2017, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Prince in Disguise, Los Angeles, C.A., New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 48:

     "Come along, chickens." Kit had somehow moved ahead of us, almost caught up with everyone else. "There's snookeries to see."

Etymology 3

From snooker (“to fool or bamboozle”) +‎ -ery.

Noun

snookery (countable and uncountable, plural snookeries)

1. (rare) Trickery.
   • 1916 August, “Reviews”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume XXIX, London: The Burlington Magazine Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 214:

     He [Guy Cadogan Rothery] offers a preponderance of well established fact at a low price, and shows no sign of inventive "snookery".

   • 1966, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., pages 174–175:

     Zoe smiled bitterly. "You don't suppose a man like Mountclemens reported all his income, do you?" / "What did your husband think about that bit of snookery?"

   • 1993, Louise Armstrong, And They Call It Help, Reading, M.A. […]: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 156:

     Greedy entrepreneurs, offering to diagnose children, to intimidate by incarceration (in the name of treatment), were no more than the agents of a more widespread snookery: a snookery entirely dependent on the medical, the scientific, authority granted to DSM-III-R.

   • 2006, Joseph McBride, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career, Lexington, K.Y.: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 259:

     "Do you believe in magic?" he asks the audience. "Well, you do believe your eyes, don't you? And our cameras do not lie. Really. They're seeing what you see without the slightest hint of technological trickery, sidearm snookery, hanky-panky, or ranny-gazoo."

   • 2010, Ed Lane, A Circling of Vultures, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: FastPrint Publishing, →ISBN, page 256:

     Rubbing its nose in the dirt, the embarrassment it caused, sheer snookery was the message.