chanceyness

English

Etymology

From chancey +‎ -ness.

Noun

chanceyness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of chanciness.
    • 1951, Report of the State Apiarist for the Year Ending December 31, 1951, Des Moines, Ia., →OCLC, page 39:
      All this chanceyness is only part of the gamble. I mentioned the risk of starvation.
    • 1961, Jennifer Dawson, chapter 3, in The Ha-Ha, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 39:
      ‘The chanceyness of it all,’ I tried to explain as he lay there blowing smoke out into the sky. The houses and the offices and the showrooms with the people going in and out.
    • 1989 May 15, John D[avid] Dingell, quotee, Ozone Layer Depletion: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives […] (Serial No. 101-87), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1990, →OCLC, page 180:
      What I am trying to figure out is how is this chanceyness being cranked into the decisions and the plans of both EPA and the State Department as you go to negotiate with all these enthusiasts on the other side of the oceans.
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