snookery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Q-Ball is, I agree, a very snookery sounding game, but really 'anti-grav martian pool' would be of a more apt title."
- "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."
- "It's an awesome feed for those of you who have not checked it out. Chock full o' snookery goodness."
- "One small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery.""
- "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."
Etymology
From snooker + -y.