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lucky
(encz) | lucky,šťastlivý adj: Pino |
lucky
(encz) | lucky,šťastný adj: mít štěstí Ritchie |
Lucky
(gcide) | Lucky \Luck"y\, a. [Compar. Luckier; superl. Luckiest.]
1. Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or
good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
" Lucky wight." --Spenser.
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2. Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or
unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a
lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
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We doubt not of a fair and lucky war. --Shak.
Syn: Successful; fortunate; prosperous; auspicious.
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lucky
(wn) | lucky
adj 1: occurring by chance; "a lucky escape"; "a lucky guess"
2: having or bringing good fortune; "my lucky day"; "a lucky
man" [ant: luckless, unlucky]
3: presaging or likely to bring good luck; "a favorable time to
ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make
a decision" [syn: golden, favorable, favourable,
lucky, prosperous] |
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plucky
(mass) | plucky
- odvážny, statočný |
a lucky break
(encz) | a lucky break,hodně štěstí Zdeněk Brož |
a lucky streak
(encz) | a lucky streak,řada výher Zdeněk Brož |
happy-go-lucky
(encz) | happy-go-lucky,bezstarostný |
lucky dip
(encz) | lucky dip, n: |
lucky dog
(encz) | lucky dog, |
lucky streak
(encz) | lucky streak, |
plucky
(encz) | plucky,odvážný adj: Zdeněk Brožplucky,statečný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
should be so lucky
(encz) | should be so lucky, |
unlucky
(encz) | unlucky,nešťastný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
you can thank your lucky stars
(encz) | you can thank your lucky stars, |
you have to be good to be lucky
(encz) | you have to be good to be lucky, |
Happy-go-lucky
(gcide) | Happy \Hap"py\ (h[a^]p"p[y^]), a. [Compar. Happier
(-p[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Happiest.] [From Hap chance.]
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
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Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
than the causes of them. --Boyle.
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2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the
feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace,
tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours,
happy thoughts.
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Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
cxliv. 15.
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The learned is happy Nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more. --Pope.
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3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
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One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
a in a rejoinder. --Swift.
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Happy family, a collection of animals of different and
hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
who are in fact mutually repugnant.
Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." --W. Black.
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Lucky
(gcide) | Lucky \Luck"y\, a. [Compar. Luckier; superl. Luckiest.]
1. Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or
good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
" Lucky wight." --Spenser.
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2. Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or
unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a
lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
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We doubt not of a fair and lucky war. --Shak.
Syn: Successful; fortunate; prosperous; auspicious.
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Lucky proach
(gcide) | Lucky proach \Luck`y proach"\n. (Zool.)
See Fatherlasher.
[1913 Webster]Father-lasher \Fa"ther-lash`er\, n. (Zool.)
A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the
sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
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lucky proach
(gcide) | Lucky proach \Luck`y proach"\n. (Zool.)
See Fatherlasher.
[1913 Webster]Father-lasher \Fa"ther-lash`er\, n. (Zool.)
A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the
sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
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Plucky
(gcide) | Plucky \Pluck"y\, a. [Compar. Pluckier; superl. Pluckiest.]
Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying
pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
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If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright.
--Barham.
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Unlucky
(gcide) | Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a.
1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated;
unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an
unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
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Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which
failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of
hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort.
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2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
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Haunt me not with that unlucky face. --Dryden.
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3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]
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happy-go-lucky
(wn) | happy-go-lucky
adj 1: cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money";
"freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
[syn: carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling,
happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy] |
lucky dip
(wn) | lucky dip
n 1: a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are
concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can
draw one out at random
2: a selection or decision purely at random; "their system of
hiring people seemed to be a sort of lucky dip" |
lucky lindy
(wn) | Lucky Lindy
n 1: United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo
nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) [syn:
Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh,
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy] |
plucky
(wn) | plucky
adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of
difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have
to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the
gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith
Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant:
gutless]
2: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
challenger" [syn: feisty, plucky, spunky] |
unlucky
(wn) | unlucky
adj 1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an
unlucky date" [syn: unlucky, luckless] [ant: lucky]
2: marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture
was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture";
"an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put
in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: doomed, ill-fated, {ill-
omened}, ill-starred, unlucky] |
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