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In some senses, snookery is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
inventive, redolent
VERB + SNOOKERY
agree, leisured, mess, sign, taken
SNOOKERY + NOUN
evenings, operations
PREP.
out
ADV.
aside
adj
Characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.
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.
noun
A place where snooker is played.
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.
noun
Trickery.
He [Guy Cadogan Rothery] offers a preponderance of well established fact at a low price, and shows no sign of inventive "snookery".
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?"
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.
WiktionaryQ-Ball is, I agree, a very snookery sounding game, but really 'anti-grav martian pool' would be of a more apt title.
WiktionaryFor 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.
WiktionaryOne small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery."
WiktionaryFinally, 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.
Wiktionary"Come along, chickens." Kit had somehow moved ahead of us, almost caught up with everyone else. "There's snookeries to see."
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In some senses, snookery is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.