Spockery
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Spockery (uncountable)
- Synonym of Spockism
- 1965, Ronald F. Dore, Education in Tokugawa Japan, page 289:
- A good deal of the practical advice is medical—how to detect the symptoms of tuberculosis, how to diagnose a pregnancy, foods to avoid during pregnancy (crabs, or the child will come out sideways etc.), lucky directions in which a pregnant woman should contrive to face on various days of the zodiac, charms to secure an easy delivery, herbs to improve the flow of milk, hints on the care of infants, remedies for warts and bed-wetting and other kinds of Spockery.
- 1966, Insight and Outlook
- The causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery.