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S vs Dicey - What's the difference?

s | dicey |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective dicey is

fraught with danger.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    dicey

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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 , page 161,
    • Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey .
  • Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
  • * 1992 , Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man'', in ''Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories , 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.
  • * 2011 , Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social , page xv,
    • If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
  • (slang) Nauseating, rank.
  • * 2011 , Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers , page 101,
    • Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.