unchancy
English
Etymology
From un- + chancy.
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.
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