Crossword clues for chancy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chancy \chancy\ adj.
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depending on chance.
Syn: chanceful, dicey, dodgy, hazardous, risky.
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subject to accident or chance or change.
Syn: fluky, flukey, iffy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "lucky, foreboding good fortune," from chance (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "uncertain, subject to risk" is recorded from 1860. The possible sense "full of opportunity" seems to have been used regularly only in cricket (1875).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (surname A=An English from=Old French) 2 (given name male from=surnames)
WordNet
adj. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker [syn: chanceful, dicey, dodgy]
subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition" [syn: fluky, flukey, iffy]
Wikipedia
Chancy is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The westernmost point of the country is located there.
Usage examples of "chancy".
Meeree had breathed not a single word to him, had grunted curses only when the chancy grip of her left hand had caused the honestone to slip and so interrupt the established rhythm of her task.
This is our friend Markoff Chancy, a man of great imagination and a true servant of Goddess.
Barney, Markoff Chancy, and Dillinger were all puzzled that a man like Carmel would bring a suitcase full of roses with him when fleeing to Lehman Cavern.
It might have been better to risk a border crossing afoot into Montana or Washington, he thought, but increased border patrols and sensing devices had made that chancy, even for Quebecois, who had provoked those precautions.
Llesho answered with a formulaic plea for hospitality that he hoped would cool tempers growing chancy.
He himself concluded nothing, accepted no past name, and perhaps by that refusal made his own essence chancier in the world, more difficult to seize on.
But Emuin had left him in order to advise and restrain Tristen, a far chancier element.
That opposing OCTAGON in the game got you into real-world trouble was a much chancier theory.
Sometimes it seems insane that we did it our way, or far chancier to do it our way, than some other, but it always has its reasons and it generally works.
She suspected she had seen more combat than her partner on the drill fieldscouting was a chancier business than fighting in line.
The men rode after him in haste, and for a moment they went pell-mell down the chancy turn, over ground buried in leaves.
Tristen said, wondering what Emuin might intend to say on this chancy night.
He had always been a dangerous man, snuggling right up next Marhanen warmth, looking for advantage from the Marhanen, most chancy in allegiance, seeing he had, now, a hostage.
The Bryaltine abbot, Cadell, unadorned and without his symbols on this chancy night, gazed at his new duke with eyes bright and high color suffusing his cheeks.
I learned that life was much more chancy than I ever imagined, and it left a mark on me.