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Definition of Flukey
1. Adjective. Subject to accident or chance or change. "An iffy proposition"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Uncertain
Derivative terms: Fluke, Fluke
Definition of Flukey
1. Adjective. lucky ¹
2. Adjective. unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flukey
1. fluky [adj FLUKIER, FLUKIEST] - See also: fluky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flukey
Literary usage of Flukey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Settler's Guide and Farmer's Handbook by Western Australia Dept. of Agriculture, L. Lindley-Cowen (1897)
"A number of flukey sheep were brought on to a property which, though containing
several nasty spots, was always free from fluke. The sheep were kept on the ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1881)
"Before long the wind fell very faint and flukey, Latona, Florinda, ... forties was
sailed, or rather drifted, in a mean flukey wind, when Norman again beat ..."
3. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"He was a rookey, so flukey, He was a jim dandy you all will agree, ' He said
without fear, " Before I'ma year In the Army, great changes you'll see. ..."
4. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"... all the sheep coming from one of the river deltas are flukey, yet sheep have
been kept there for many years at a profit. It would appear from the above, ..."
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