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).
| 词汇 | chancy |
| 词根词缀 | Online Etymology Dictionary 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). |
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