snookery adjective 1noun 2forms 1 adjective1 •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. — 1983 noun2 •A place where snooker is played.One small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery." — 1930 •(rare) Trickery.He [Guy Cadogan Rothery] offers a preponderance of well established fact at a low price, and shows no sign of inventive "snookery". — 1916 formssnookeries
