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The ABCs Of That Office Guy
Wanchancy. /(wänˈchan(t)sē)/. DEFINITION: Unlucky; dangerously risky FIRST
IMPRESSION: We admire his daring move and say to ourselves, “Now, there's a
real risk taker, it really takes some balls to go out on a limb like that.” Although we
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Pia Bertone-Gross & Matt Rossini
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The English dialect dictionary
WANCHANCY, adj. Sc. th. Also written wanchaneic; and in form winchancie Sc.
Unlucky, illfated, boding evil; wicked; dangerous, apt to injure. See Wan, adj.2 Sc.
(JAM); Some wanchancy person . . . fired a shot at him, Sco'r'r lVaverlcy (1814) ...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: ballads, collected by sir ...
Spat— Spot. 2» Sal— Shall. so Dede— Death. "Wanweird— Unhappyfate. "
Oulks— Weeks. »Wull— Wild. « Wanerthly— Preternatural 35 Wod— Mad. »
Wanchancy— Unlucky. 1 Taiken— Token. 2 Leil— True. 3 Weird— Fate. * 540
WATER.
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From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of ...
Cf wanchancy. [OED chancy adj 1 'lucky ... auspicious' Scottish, obsolete; DOSt
chancy adj 'bringing or having good fortune, fortunate, lucky' 151 3- >] ULSt.:
1937 Rowley Tales ofMourne 39 There'll not be a penny of Fairy money about
this ...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart..
The hind cums in, gif haim he win, And cries, as he war wod, 3 — ' Sum ane sail
soon be carryit down By that wanchancy 4 flude ! ' " The taiken 5 leil 6 thai ken
fow weel, On water sides quha won ; And aw but thai, quha's weird 7 I spae, 8
Fast ...
Sir Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry
Or is this Heaven, this yalla licht, And I the aft'rins o' the Earth, Or sic's in this
wanchancy time May weel fin' sudden birth? The roots that wi' the worms
compete Hauf-publish me upon the air. The struggle that divides me still Is seen
fu' plainly ...
Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach, Michael Grieve, 2006
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The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language
From these come some simple derivatives or back-formations like wanchancy '
unlucky' and wanworth 'something worthless'. Wanchancy may also have been
modelled on the existing unchancy as wansonsy probably is on unsonsy.
Riddell's ...
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Chronicles of the Canongate: 3 dl
a Indeed, Robin, I 'll be better advised or I git: it back to you—it is a wanchancy
weapon in a Highlandman's hand, and -I am thinking you will be about some
barns-breaking.» a Prutt, trutt! let me have my weapon,' said Robin :68 -
canomcuzs ...
And then the as boat set aff for North Berwick, an' the tither laywhaur it was and
watched the wanchancy thing on the braeside. A' the time we laythere it lowped
and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hearit ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, 2014
It wasna permitted.The next news we got, thepuir laddie was deid o' influenzy
and buried somewhere about France. The wanchancy bullet maun
haveweakened hischest, nae doot. Sothat's the end o' the guid stock o'Kennedyo'
Huntingtower, ...
