dodgy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From dodge (verb) + -y. First used in mid-19th century England.

VIVIE [letting him take it] Take care of your fingers; theyre rather dodgy things, those chairs. — Mrs. Warren's Profession, Bernard Shaw
"Both" replied Gladys "you see after meals, the flaps of this table are let down, an Indian silk cloth put upon it, and it is a sweet little table for the centre of a drawingroom, "How dodgy" cried Helen in delight. — Daisy Ashford: Her Book, Daisy Ashford
This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, such as demanding bandages; but Wendy, though glorying in having them all home again safe and sound, was scandalised by the lateness of the hour, and cried, “To bed, to bed,” in a voice that had to be obeyed. — Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy], J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

chancy, chanceful, dicey

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