dicey

• dicy

From dice +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪsi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪsi

dicey (comparative dicier, superlative diciest)

1. Fraught with danger.
2. Of uncertain, risky outcome.
   • 2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, editors, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World, page 161:

     Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.

3. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
   • 1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, “The Witness Man”, in Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories, page 95:

     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.

   • 2011, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social, page xv:

     If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.

4. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (slang) Nauseating, rank.
   • 2011, Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers‎^[1], page 101:

     Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.

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