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Chancy

//ˈtʃænsi// adj, name, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Uncertain; risky; hazardous.

    "In winter steam contributes a fairly high proportion of its tractive effort, say 15 per cent, to heating the train. Diesels have at the moment separate oil-fired boilers which are somewhat chancy affairs, and only electric locomotives grab unlimited power for heating which does not affect their punctuality."

  2. 2
    Subject to chance; random.
  3. 3
    Lucky; bringing good luck. colloquial, dated

    "His haggard gaze swept this way and that, seeking possible succour where reason told him there could be no succour; and then as his vision pieced together this outjutting architectural feature and that into a coherent picture of his immediate surroundings he knew where he was. The one bit of chancy luck in a sequence of direful catastrophes had brought him here[Pg 49] to this very spot. Why, this must be West Ninth Street; it had to be, it was—oh joy, it was!."

Adjective
  1. 1
    subject to accident or chance or change wordnet
  2. 2
    of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname from Old French.
  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.

Etymology

From chance + -y.

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