Dicey vs X - What's the difference?
dicey | x |
Fraught with danger.
Of uncertain, risky outcome.
* 2012 , Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver (editors), They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World ,
Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
* 1992 , Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man'', in ''Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories ,
* 2011 , Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social ,
(slang) Nauseating, rank.
* 2011 , Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers ,
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
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As an adjective dicey
is fraught with danger.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.dicey
English
Adjective
(er)page 161,
- Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey .
page 95,
- As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn?t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
page xv,
- If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
page 101,
- Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.