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** English
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*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
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*** Adjective
[er]
1. [fraught] with danger .
2. Of uncertain , risky outcome .
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | editors=Jonathan Deutsch; Natalya Murakhver | title=They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=H6pIinfPtnQC&pg=PA161&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C6Y8T8HJN_DOmAW6jNnCBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=161
|passage=Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit
DICEY.}}
1. * [en]
2. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy , provenance , etc.; dodgy .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1992 | author=Vincent O'Sullivan | chapter=The Witness Man | title=Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Hs6R_T91u6AC&pg=PA95&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c6c8T_meCOTEmQXMztzYBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=95
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2011 | author=Jay Baer; Amber Naslund | title=The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XU1n7tvOnaEC&pg=PR15&dq=%22dicey%22+smell+OR+meat+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H6I8T9IQqYmZBZLH9NwH&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dicey%22%20smell%20OR%20meat%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=xv
|passage=If you were in the business of selling DICEY meat, the invention of
the telephone rocked your world.}}
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**** Translations
[fraught with danger]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
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[of uncertain, risky outcome]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] [obsolete ] , [tr] [obsolete ]
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