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chancy (adj.)
1510s, "lucky, foreboding good fortune," from
chance
(n.) +
-y
(2). Meaning "uncertain, subject to risk" is recorded from 1860. The possible sense "full of opportunity" seems to have been used regularly only in cricket (1875).
