unchancy

American  

[uhn-chan-see, -chahn-] / ʌnˈtʃæn si, -ˈtʃɑn- /

adjective

Chiefly Scot.

1. unlucky.

2. dangerous.

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unchancy British  

/ ʌnˈtʃɑːnsɪ /

adjective

1. unlucky, ill-omened, or dangerous Compare wanchancy

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Etymology

Origin of unchancy

First recorded in 1525–35; un- ¹ + chancy

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Example Sentences

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unchancy

It was plain that Grisell was in no state to be taken on a journey, and her mother went grumbling down the stair at the unchancy bairn always doing scathe.

From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge

There was something so solemn and unchancy about him that his sister put a handful of forks and spoons on the table and stood looking at him.

From The Happy Venture by Edith Ballinger Price

And down the gate in faith they’re worse And mair unchancy.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

And it is precisely such unchancy happenings that make the scheme of things go wrong.

From Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I have not seen the place, but it is badly spoken of for a desolate, unchancy land, bad for cattle, and only good to hunters.

From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Perceval Gibbon

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