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unˈchancy, a. Chiefly Sc.
[un-1 7. Cf. wanchancy a.]
1. Ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. iv. (S.T.S.) I. 142 Sen his hous was vnchancy, & his son dede. 1536― Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 468 The lordis thocht that Johne was ane unchancy name to be ane king. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxii. 141 Lastly slaine By Edward, whilst he did vphold vnchancie Henries Raigne. 1768Ross Helenore ii. 98, I..monie a weary foot synsyne hae gane, Born i' the yerd wi' that unchancy coat. 1863N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IV. 264 Another of this difficult lady's unchancy wooers was a Scottish laird. 1893Stevenson Catriona xiii, The devil any other sight or sound in that unchancy place.
b. Inconvenient, ill-timed.
1860Trollope Framley P. xxix, Why had his Grace come at so unchancy a moment?
2. Dangerous; not safe to meddle with.
1786Burns To J. Kennedy i, Down the gate, in faith, they're worse, And mair unchancy. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxiii, We gang-there-out Hieland bodies are an unchancy generation when you speak to us o' bondage. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xii, A stalwart unchancy customer, who will not be gainsaid or contradicted. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 281 The Brown Owl,..when roused to anger or urged by despair, is a remarkably unchancy antagonist. |