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Chancy   /tʃˈænsi/   Listen
Chancy

adjective
1.
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.  Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy.
2.
Subject to accident or chance or change.  Synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy.  "Getting that job was definitely fluky" , "A fluky wind" , "An iffy proposition"





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"Chancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... little distance before falling dead. In certain types of country this means considerable tracking, may even mean the loss of the animal. Next comes anywhere in the barrel forward of the short ribs—a chancy proceeding, and one leading to long chases. After that the likelihood of a cripple ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al
... island where the men keep fit— St Kilda's, a stark fastness of high crag: They must keep fit or famish: their main food The Solan goose; and it's a chancy job To swing down a sheer face of slippery granite And drop a noose over the sentinel bird Ere he can squawk to rouse the sleeping flock. They must keep fit—their bodies taut and trim— To have the nerve: and they're ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)


Words linked to "Chancy" :   colloquialism, chance, dangerous, uncertain, unsafe


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