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Unchancy vs Wanchancy - What's the difference?

unchancy | wanchancy |

As adjectives the difference between unchancy and wanchancy

is that unchancy is (chiefly|scotland) unfortunate, ill-fortuned while wanchancy is (dialectal|chiefly|scotland) unlucky; unchancy.

unchancy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) Unfortunate, ill-fortuned.
  • (chiefly, Scotland) Dangerous, unsafe.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
  • *:the Kinraddies sat them quiet and decent and peaceable in their castle, and heeded never a fig the arguings of folk, for wars were unchancy things.

    • wanchancy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Unlucky; unchancy.
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Wicked.

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