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lucky

adj
/ˈlʌki/US/ˈlʊki/

Etymology

From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”), Saterland Frisian glukkelk (“happy”).

  1. inherited from lukky

Definitions

  1. Favoured by luck

    Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.

    • a lucky adventurer
    • The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
    • I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare.

  2. Producing, or resulting in, good fortune

    • a lucky mistake
    • a lucky cast
    • a lucky hour

  3. seven

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A surname.

    2. A given name for a dog.

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Derived

cut one's lucky, get lucky, happy-go-lucky, luckily, luckiness, lucky bag, lucky bamboo, lucky break, lucky charm, lucky clover, Lucky Country, lucky devil, lucky dip, lucky dog, lucky draw, lucky duck, lucky duckling, lucky girl syndrome, lucky grouper, lucky imaging, lucky loser, lucky money, lucky nut, Lucky Pierre, lucky star, lucky stiff, lucky streak, lucky you, one should be so lucky, strike it lucky, strike lucky, strike me lucky, superlucky, third time lucky, today's lucky 10,000, today's lucky ten thousand, unlucky, you have to be good to be lucky

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lucky. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01lucky02luck03success04financial05date06palm07leaf08flat09depressed10unhappy

A definitional loop anchored at lucky. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at lucky

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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