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From crocker(“(obsolete) potter”) + -ery(suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns).[1]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 Englishcrok, crokke(“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”), from Old Englishcrocc, crocca(“crock, pot, vessel”),[2][3] from Proto-Germanic*krukkō, *krukkô(“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European*growg-(“vessel”).
All the street was lined with wretched hucksters and their merchandise of gooseberries, green apples, children's dirty cakes, cheap crockeries, brushes, and tin-ware; among which objects the people were swarming about busily.
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2018; “crockery, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
