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Unchancy   Listen
adjective
Unchancy  adj.  
1.
Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient.
2.
Ill-fated; unlucky. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
3.
Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous. (Scot.)






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"Unchancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... unchancy woman; ye'll ken the breed o' them, for they will be sore feart o' clean burn-water, but they'll be coorieing ower a fire a' day, and talking to the black cat, and I had it in my mind to be turning when I saw her, for did she not come into the byre at Dyke-end when the beasts were ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars



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