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flukey

/ˈfluːki/

flukey adjective: lucky.

Adjective

flukey (comparative more flukey, superlative most flukey)

  1. Lucky.
    • For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 Jun 2018
    Synonyms:
    jammy
  2. Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes.
    • We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.

Synonyms of flukey

Forms of flukey

comparativemore flukey
superlativemost flukey
alternative formfluky

Origin of flukey

From fluke + -y.

Words that rhyme with flukey

Questions about flukey

What does flukey mean?
Flukey means lucky.
What part of speech is flukey?
Flukey is an adjective.
How do you pronounce flukey?
Flukey is pronounced /ˈfluːki/.

Words near flukey in the dictionary

  1. flukes
  2. flukes out
  3. flukes up
  4. flukeworm
  5. flukeworms
  6. flukey
  7. flukicidal
  8. flukicide
  9. flukicides
  10. flukier
  11. flukiest

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