dicey
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdaɪsi/
dicey (comparative dicier, superlative diciest)
- 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=H6pIinfPtnQC&pg=PA161&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C6Y8T8HJN_DOmAW6jNnCBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 161],
- Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.
- 2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver (editors), They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=H6pIinfPtnQC&pg=PA161&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C6Y8T8HJN_DOmAW6jNnCBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 161],
- Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
- 1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man, in Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Hs6R_T91u6AC&pg=PA95&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c6c8T_meCOTEmQXMztzYBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XU1n7tvOnaEC&pg=PR15&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H6I8T9IQqYmZBZLH9NwH&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page xv],
- If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
- 1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man, in Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Hs6R_T91u6AC&pg=PA95&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c6c8T_meCOTEmQXMztzYBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 95],
- (slang) Nauseating, rank.
- French: au résultat incertain, risqué
- German: riskant
- Russian: рискованый
- Spanish: peligroso, arriesgado, dudoso, incierto
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