Definition of "wanchancy" [wanchancy]

• Unlucky; unchancy. (adjective)
• Wicked. (adjective)

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• "Indeed, ye’ll no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o’ the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Laird’s room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Laird’s whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better."
• "And then the as boat set aff for North Berwick, an 'the tither lay whaur it was and watched the wanchancy thing on the brae-side."
• "Lord save us a '! but it's an unco life to be a sailor -- a cauld, wanchancy life."