dicey

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree 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.

1. Fraught with danger.
2. Of uncertain, risky outcome.

   “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.”

3. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.

   “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.”