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Crookery vs Cookery - What's the difference?

crookery | cookery |

As nouns the difference between crookery and cookery

is that crookery is the activities of crooks; crime while cookery is the art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

crookery

English

Noun

  • The activities of crooks; crime.
  • * 1959 , Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure
    • It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.
  • * 2003 , Martin Howell, Predators and profits: 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs
    • But this is small time crookery to the real manipulators and deceivers.
  • * 2008 , Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America
    • What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief

    cookery

    English

    Noun

  • The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
    • Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
  • * 1475 , Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened , subtitle:
    • together with excellent directions for cookery , as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
  • (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
  • * 1839 , John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues , page 335:
    • I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
  • (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
  • * 1800 , Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke , page 3:
    • She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
  • * 1934 , Gray Owl, Pilgrims of the Wild , page 101:
    • ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...
  • (figurative) Making something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.
  • * 1871 [380 BCE], Plato, Gorgias , tr. Benjamin Jowett:
    • Cookery , then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of medicine...
  • * 1997 , Leon Mayhew, The New Public , page 22–3:
    • Yet ever since Plato claimed that rhetoric is only a knack of making the worse appear the better cause – a form of "cookery " – rhetorical theories of social order have been under attack...