adjective
Etymology
Origin of unchancy
Example Sentences
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It is an unchancy, unlucky thing to do.
From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
I pulled his head round away from the ghost, drew out a pistol, and watched the unchancy thing's movements.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.
And it is precisely such unchancy happenings that make the scheme of things go wrong.
From Kilmeny of the Orchard by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
"I would fain not run the risk, for folk say that he is an unchancy creature."
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
"But," continued the laird, "mind the Middlemass wood, sir, and keep a gleg ee about ye when ye're passin through't; for, as I was sayin before, there's some gay unchancy chiels thereabouts enow."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
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