▪ I. patchery1
(ˈpætʃərɪ)
[f. patch n.1 or v. + -ery.]
The action of patching or mending clumsily or hastily; anything made up of pieces or fragments put together; a patchwork (usually fig.).
| 1579 Fulke Heskins's Parl. 239 The Greeke Article is so placed, as it can abide no such patcherie. 1623 R. Bernard Looke beyond Luther Ep. Ded. 2 A new vpstart Religion, a patcherie of Iudaisme, Paganisme and Heresie. 1702 C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xxiii. (1852) 467 Vile human inventions..and patcheries sticht into the service of the Lord. 1834 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) III. 31 Designating such performances as jargon and patchery. 1880 Swinburne Stud. Shaks. (ed. 2) App. 232 A thin sample of poetic patchery cobbled up and stitched together. |
▪ II. † ˈpatchery2 Obs.
[f. patch n.2 + -ery.]
The conduct of a ‘patch’; roguery, knavery.
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 64 From the fathers sermons shal such fond patcherye flicker? Ibid., Conceits (Arb.) 140 Cleaue toe the sound Castè, flee from thee patcherye Cautè. 1607 Shakes. Timon v. i. 99 You heare him cogge, See him dissemble, Know his grosse patchery. |
¶ In the following the sense is uncertain.
| 1553 Respublica (Brandl) v. ix. 79 Tis a bagg of Rye in dede: vsiree, periuree, pitcheree, patcherie, pilferie, briberee, snatcherie, catcherie. |