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Webster 1913 Edition
Unchancy
Un-chan′cy
,Adj.
[Pref
un-
+ Scot. chancy
fortunate, safe.] 1.
Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient.
A. Trollope.
2.
Ill-fated; unlucky.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
3.
Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous.
[Scot.]
Definition 2024
unchancy
unchancy
English
Adjective
unchancy (comparative more unchancy, superlative most unchancy)
- (chiefly Scotland) Unfortunate, unlucky.
- (chiefly Scotland) Dangerous, unsafe.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
- the Kinraddies sat them quiet and decent and peaceable in their castle, and heeded never a fig the arguings of folk, for wars were unchancy things.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song: