dicey
/ˈdaɪsi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.67 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This was a dicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions."
- "Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey."
- "For sure, the economic and fiscal prospects for an independent Scotland look a lot dicier than they did three years ago."
- "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."
- "If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world."
- "Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Old French de Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Latin -os Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-h₁its Proto-Italic *-its Latin -es Old French -s Old French desbor. Middle English dys English dice Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dicey From dice + -y.