unchancy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ chancy.

Adjective[edit]

unchancy (comparative more unchancy, superlative most unchancy)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) Unfortunate, unlucky.
  2. (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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