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adjective

Lucky adj. (compar. luckier; superl. luckiest)

Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer. " Lucky wight."

Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour. "We doubt not of a fair and lucky war."

Synonyms: Successful; fortunate; prosperous; auspicious.

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Etymology of 'Lucky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lucky" Quotes from Famous Books

... brace or two of partridges for the house, he will suddenly say, "Quad down!" then, throwing himself on to his hands and knees in breathless anxiety, he will begin whistling for "all he knows." You imitate him to the best of your ability, and soon, if you are lucky, an enormous flock of golden plover flash over you. Four barrels are fired almost instantaneously, and the deadly "twelve-bore" of your companion is seldom ...

— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs

... "You may consider yo'self lucky," said the magistrate, "that Mr. Haines didn't prefer a mo' serious charge against you. Many a nigger has gone to the gallows for less. And now, gentlemen, I want to clean this case up right here. How much time is offered ...

— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

... send me your heartiest congratulations by return of post. I am engaged to Freda Merrifield, and am the happiest fellow in the world. They are awfully fastidious sort of people, and I do not believe Sir Richard would have consented to such a match had it not been for that lucky impulse which made me rescue Dick Fleming. It has all been arranged very quickly, as these things should be, but we have seen a good deal of each other—first at Aldershot the year before last, and just lately in town, and now these four days ...

— Derrick Vaughan--Novelist • Edna Lyall

... gaily, "this is lucky; we are on the cattle-path; no fear but it will lead us directly home, and that by ...

— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... when Mr. Richie (who was the lucky possessor of a head that liquor did not easily affect) departed homeward at four P.M., he left behind him ...

— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

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