dicey adj.
(orig. RAF jargon) risky, dangerous, dubious.
[ | ![]() | Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 55: Any one, however — any one on the sunny side of thirty — might be fairly excused for being duped by Johnny O’Dicey [...] the inexperienced would think he was the noblest-hearted fellow [...] a victim instead of a shark]. |
![]() | Town Like Alice 303: He [...] made a tight, dicey turn round in the gorge with about a hundred feet to spare. | |
![]() | Absolute Beginners 68: At the same, he does like you to say you’re glad to see him once again, so it’s all a trifle dicey. | |
![]() | Wake in Fright [ebook] ‘Joe,’ he said, ‘your rifle’s more or less pointing at me.’ ‘Yeah.’ Joe was polite, but not concerned. ‘You’re sure it’s not loaded?’ ‘Yeah, it’s loaded.’ ‘Well— ah— isn’t it a little dicey?’. | |
![]() | Concrete Kimono 188: I blinked [...] trying to read what was going on in that highly dazzling but highly dicey mind. | |
![]() | (con. 1941) Gunner 15: He wasn’t keen to have Yorgo with him in a dicey situation. | |
![]() | Only Fools and Horses [TV script] No the belly’s a bit dicey. Sort of burning pains! | ‘Christmas Crackers’|
![]() | Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 11: Having to order a hit, chase up a defaulting punter or sort out a dicey cop or politician. | |
![]() | (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 318: Ellis Loew has an injunction prepared should things get dicey. | |
![]() | Between the Devlin 149: The dicey scam with the bikies had gone over. | |
![]() | Awaydays 110: We turn and head back the way we’ve just come [...] It’s a bit dicey. | |
![]() | I, Fatty 122: To know how spooked Zukor was, you have to know how dicey the whole film business was looking. | |
![]() | Running the Books 78: I did learn an important lesson during one particularly dicey seagulling session. | |
![]() | Lives Laid Away [ebook] Humid funk. A sickly stew of sweat, farts, mold, dicey food, flat beer and premature ejaculation. | |
![]() | Shore Leave 121: It would be dicey but he relied on the fact that he was white and they were black. | |
![]() | Widespread Panic 15: I’d head to Reno for a quickie [divorce], but it might not work. We got hitched in T.J., so the paperwork could get dicey. |