chancy
pronunciation
How to pronounce chancy in British English:
UK [ˈtʃɑ:nsi]
How to pronounce chancy in American English:
US [ˈtʃænsi]
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- Adjective:
- of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
- subject to accident or chance or change
Word Origin
- chancy (adj.)
- 1510s, "lucky, foreboding good fortune," from chance (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "uncertain, subject to risk" is recorded from 1860. The possible sense "full of opportunity" seems to have been used regularly only in cricket (1875).
Example
- 1. Don 't you think it 's a bit chancy ?
- 2. Bain 's investment in 2009 was an unusually chancy move , given the uncertainty surrounding mr. huang .
- 3. Investing on the stock exchange is a chancy business .
- 4. Many suits seem an unknown , long , chancy slog up hill .
- 5. That 's very chancy material.how do you see this as chancy ?