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luckyn.1

Brit. /ˈlʌki/, U.S. /ˈləki/, Scottish English /ˈlʌkɪ/
Forms: pre-1700 locky, 1700s luky, pre-1700 1700s– luckie, 1700s– lucky, 1900s– lukki (Shetland), 2000s– lukkie.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: lucky adj.
Etymology: < lucky adj. (perhaps with allusion to lucky adj. 4). Compare earlier lucky-dad n., and also lucky-daddy n. and lucky minnie n. Compare Faroese lukkan (definite form of lukka luck n.), used as a familiar title or form of address: ‘(my) dear’.
Scottish.
1. An elderly woman; spec. a grandmother. Also: a woman of any age, esp. a wife or mistress. Frequently in familiar or humorous use. Now rare.Also prefixed as a title to a proper name or used as a form of address. Sc. National Dict. (at Luckie) records this sense as still in use in northern and east central Scotland and Ayrshire in 1961, but marks it as obsolescent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]
old wifeeOE
old womanOE
trota1375
carlinec1375
cronec1386
vecke1390
monea1393
hagc1400
ribibec1405
aunt?a1425
crate14..
witchc1475
mauda1500
mackabroine1546
grandam?1550
grannam1565
old lady1575
beldam1580
lucky1629
granny1634
patriarchess1639
runta1652
harridan1699
grimalkin1798
mama1810
tante1815
wifie1823
maw1826
old dear1836
tante1845
Mother Bunch1847
douairière1869
dowager1870
veteraness1880
old trout1897
tab1909
bag1924
crow1925
ma1932
Skinny Liz1940
old bag1947
old boot1958
tannie1958
LOL1960
the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend
lief971
ladya1393
ladyshipa1393
speciala1400
amiec1400
womanc1400
amoreta1425
mistressc1425
paramoura1450
fair ladya1470
girl?a1513
sooterkin1530
Tib1533
she1547
lady-love1568
jug1569
young lady1584
pigeon1592
love-lass1594
lass1596
dowsabel1612
swainling1615
lucky1629
Dulcinea1638
Lindabrides1640
inamorata1651
baby1684
best girl1691
lady friend1733
young woman1822
moll1823
querida1834
sheila1839
bint1855
tart1864
babykins1870
Dona1874
novia1874
fancy-girl1892
girlfriend1892
cliner1895
tootsy1895
dinah1898
best1904
twist and twirl1905
jane1906
kitten1908
patootie1918
meisie1919
bride1924
gf1925
jelly1931
sort1933
a bit (also piece) of homework1945
beast1946
queen1955
momma1964
mi'jita1970
her indoors1979
girlf1991
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandmother
eldmotherc1000
grandamc1225
good-dame1400
grandmother1424
beldamc1440
lucky1629
granny1659
grandmama1694
lucky minnie1755
grandma1772
grandmammy1789
gran1829
babushka1834
abuela1836
grandmom1860
grandmum1861
grammy1886
dadi1888
minnie1888
grams1893
bubbe1895
nana1899
gram1923
nanny1927
lola1934
abuelita1937
oma1948
nain1954
nan1955
makulu1980
omi1988
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun]
damec1330
matrona1393
feme sole1600
feme covert1602
lucky1629
ma'am1765
marm1865
1629 C. Lowther et al. Our Journall into Scotl. (1894) (modernized text) 43 Locky, an old woman.
?1692 Satyrick Lines upon Death of Lady Stairs in R. Law Memorialls (1818) 228 (note) My Lady Stairs is dead and almost rotten; Be glad and joyful at this luckie's death.
1705 Edinb. Gaz. 1 Feb. The best Oranges and Lemons..with the finest Ginge bread that is to be had, are to be Sold by Luckie Law.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 25 An odd like Wife..She fley'd the Kimmers an and a,..Nor wad they let Lucky awa, Till she was brunt wi' Branny.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iii. 24 How does auld honest lucky of the glen?
1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 20 The snapsy karles..hae their lucky to keep their clease Baith tight and clean.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 7 His kind Lucky glad did seem now.
1851 W. Anderson Rhymes 163 My Lucky left to me a kist.
1914 W. De Morgan When Ghost meets Ghost xxxi. 367 She had said of the old lady, that she was a ‘douce auld luckie’: and that she stood in need of no ‘bonny-wawlies and whigmaleeries’.
1928 J. G. Horne Lan'wart Loon 24 A girnin', mantin', wantin' lucky.
2. A woman who brews or sells beer; a landlady of a public house or tavern. Now historical and rare.Frequently prefixed as a title to a proper name or used as a form of address.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > brewer > woman
brewsterc1308
brew-wife1393
lucky1717
breweress1841
1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood I. 18 (note) Lucky Wood kept an ale-house in the Canongate.
1770 P. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 324 We dined at Lucky Mac Fun's.
1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 362 Lady Onlie, honest lucky, Brews gude ale at shore o' Bucky.
1793 R. Gray Poems 89 We'll hire some hag and gie the wee things till her; Ye ken sic luckies will do ought for filler.
1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 442 O had your tongue now Luckie Laing.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iv. 84 I said to Luckie Gemmels, ‘Never think you, Luckie,’ said I.
a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 145 The gawcy change-hoose luckies lauch and mulct the drucken fule.
1873 Guidman Inglismaill 44 Luckie brings the drucken bite—saut beef an' breid, To moyen ben anither bowl o' toddy.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xii. 134 Alan..must..carry on to the new luckie with the old story.
1996 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 9 Nov. 19 Many recipes published in Victorian cookbooks had been handed down from the records of Scottish ‘luckies’ who were ale wives of the seventeenth century.
†3. A witch, a sorceress. Obsolete.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > witch > [noun]
walkyrieOE
witchOE
hagc1230
strya1300
wise woman1382
sorceressc1384
luller14..
tylyester14..
chantressc1425
magicienne1490
gyre-carline1535
witch-womana1538
eye-biter1584
beldama1586
witch-wife1591
cunning woman1594
saga?a1600
magha1609
magicianess1651
hag-witcha1658
haggard1658
besom-rider1664
wizardess1789
fly-by-night1796
lucky1827
bruja1829
weird-woman1845
hex1856
Baba Yaga1857
pishogue1906
witcher1928
1827 J. Watt Poems 56 Gin the kye o' milk be dryin', Some luckie's been her cantrips tryin'.
1896 N. Christie Lays & Verses 22 There are luckies three wha meet wi' me On steeds o' birk an' whin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

luckyn.2

Brit. /ˈlʌki/, U.S. /ˈləki/
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: lucky adj.
Etymology: Probably < lucky adj. (compare lucky adj. 2, perhaps originally short for e.g. lucky escape ). With to cut one's lucky compare cut v. 19 and to cut one's stick at cut v. 44.
slang. Now rare.
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky: to get away, escape; to decamp.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1821 P. Egan Life in London ii. vii. 347 Our heroes made their lucky as soon as they conveniently could.
1834 M. M. G. Dowling Othello Travestie i. ii. 7 He's in such a rage—you'd better cut your lucky.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 100 Wot's the use o' runnin' arter a man as has made his lucky, and got to t'other end of the Borough by this time.
1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xiv. 119 Simpson, of the Bays, has cut his lucky this morning.
1905 S. Weyman Starvecrow Farm xix. 214 He's cut his lucky. He's gone to Carlisle.
1957 G. Kersh Fowlers End xi. 242 Drink your tea, grab your bag, and take your lucky.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Luckyn.3

Brit. /ˈlʌki/, U.S. /ˈləki/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: English Lucky Strike.
Etymology: Shortened < Lucky Strike, a proprietary name for a U.S. brand of cigarettes ( < lucky adj. + strike n.1).
A Lucky Strike cigarette. Frequently in plural.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > proprietary cigarettes
Abdulla1903
woodbine1907
Gauloise1920
Lucky1920
Player?1932
Gitane1933
1920 Illustr. World Oct. 208/1 (advt.) Buy your favorite cigarettes wholesale. Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields.
1928 Life 27 Dec. 55 (advt.) Overweight is banished when you banish fattening sweets and light a Lucky instead.
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 153 If Luckies are to sell here, they will have to be put under the patronage of Saint Joseph.
1953 A. Baron Human Kind 184 He fumbled for a packet of Luckies and offered Casey a fresh cigarette.
1969 N. Freeling Tsing-Boum xxii. 160 Those French ones—no thanks. I only smoke Luckies, really.
1981 P. Roth Zuckerman Unbound 220 The sight of a priest buying a pack of Luckies in the candy store downstairs..was more unexpected.
2013 Waste & Recycling News (Nexis) 18 Mar. 4 It's 3 o'clock and he has gone through 20-some shots and beers along with at least two packs of Luckies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

luckyadj.

Brit. /ˈlʌki/, U.S. /ˈləki/
Forms: late Middle English locky, late Middle English–1500s lukky, 1500s–1600s luckye, 1500s–1600s lukie (chiefly Scottish), 1500s– luckie, 1500s– lucky, 1600s lonkie (Scottish, transmission error), 1600s luckey, 1600s luckyst (superlative), 1600s–1700s 2000s– lukkie (Scottish), 2000s– licky (Scottish (north-eastern)).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: luck n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < luck n. + -y suffix1. Compare Middle Dutch luckich (early modern Dutch lukkig, lokkig), Middle Low German lükkich, and also Middle Dutch geluckich, gelockich (Dutch gelukkig), Middle Low German gelükkich, Middle High German gelückec.
1. Bringing, or regarded as bringing, good luck; auspicious.In later use frequently designating an object carried as a good-luck charm, as lucky heather, lucky penny, lucky sixpence, lucky stone, etc.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune > auspicious
goodOE
fortunatec1400
luckyc1450
fortunablec1465
sonsyc1540
propitious1581
auspicate1603
auspicial1614
auspicious1616
well1633
silly1650
auspical1656
candid1715
well-omened1720
good luck1761
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [adjective] > of nature of or relating to amulet > for luck
luckyc1450
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective] > of good omen
luckyc1450
benefic1601
well-boding1603
auspicial1614
auspicious1614
benevolous1642
dexter1646
benefical1647
auspical1656
well-omened1720
promissory1732
auspicatory1734
dextral1774
c1450 J. Metham Days Moon (Garrett) in Wks. (1916) 150 (MED) The vj day off the mone ys lukky for hem that wul go an-huntyng.
1534 U. von Hutten in tr. L. Valla Treat. Donation Syluester sig. B.iiiv I am therfore ryght ioyfull and gladde for their sakes, which are lyuing in this tyme, which by you, as it were by a most lucky starre of peace sprongen vp.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Cor. i. f. xliiii With all good and luckye woordes, blessed..bee God.
1613 J. Maxwell Imperiall & Princely Pedegree (single sheet) He in the ninth, She in the tenth degree, (which numbers in them vnited, make vp King Iames his auspicious and luckie number of ninteene).
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 20 in Justa Edouardo King So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn.
1718 Free-thinker No. 52. 1 Sneezing..might be interpreted Lucky, or Unlucky, according to the Occasions.
1727 J. Swift Thoughts Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 1st Vol. 407 Augustus meeting an Ass with a lucky Name foretold himself good Fortune.
1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 22. 175 It has often happened..that a dream, by presenting to the imagination a lucky number, has induced a poor man to commit himself in the lottery.
1801 Farther Excursions of Observant Pedestrian I. 22 What was her terror to find the pocket ripped and empty, with the little screw sanctorum, containing a hoarded half guinea, and a lucky sixpence, all vanished.
1855 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 10 Sept. (1868) 105 The new house seems to be lucky, indeed; for, from the first moment of our arrival, we have had good news.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 85 Holy-stone, a flint or pebble in its natural state with a hole through it, numbers of which are found on our coast. They are also called ‘lucky stones’.
1873 Once a Week 8 Mar. 201/2 He had seen generations of backers..from a late noble marquis..to ‘Ready-money Riley’ and his lucky five-pound note.
1905 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. Apr. 371 The ‘Fatima's Hand’..is generally made in silver and sold as a charm or lucky trinket, to ward off the evil eye.
1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 17/1 (advt.) You will find in this Good-Luck Ring the combination of all those elements which are considered most lucky.
1989 A. Taylor Acquainted with Night iii. 67 She looked like one of those gypsy women who accost you in Oxford Street with a sprig of lucky heather.
1999 K. A. Appiah & H. L. Gates Africana 1449/3 Bettors' techniques for choosing lucky numbers engendered much lore.
2008 N.Y. Mag. 21 Jan. 22/1 McCain is openly superstitious.., he carried with him his lucky penny and lucky compass.
2.
a. Of a person: (originally) successful, prosperous; (in later use) having or enjoying good luck, favoured by good fortune, fortunate. Cf. unlucky adj. 3.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > prosperous or successful
eurousc1425
lucky1478
thriven1863
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune > specifically of a person
happya1387
lucky1478
well-starred1775
tinny1918
tin-arsed1937
1478 R. Cely Let. 26 Mar. in Cely Lett. (1975) 17 Your horse farys well..byt ȝeyt I cannot sel hym. I schaull do my beste therto, and ther cum a locky man.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. xxxix. f. lviv And the Lorde was with Ioseph, and he was a luckie felowe.
1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 68 And therfore there is a common sayinge, The more wicked, the more lucky.
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 120 He never is luckie in the framing of his consequences.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 96 It is part of the description of a lucky, and prosperous man, that his Cow calveth.
1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother v. ii. 68 I am not lucky at the glossing Art Of catching Girls with words.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 159 If I have not been lucky in the lottery of life.
1827 W. Scott Two Drovers in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xiv. 330 Wakefield was lucky enough to find a chap for a part of his drove.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xiii. 262 He must be a luckier man than you.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth vii. 41 We were lucky to get rooms.., for they are turning people away.
1970 N. Bawden Birds on Trees v. 83 You've been lucky so far, your life has gone as you wanted it.
1989 TV Times 14 Oct. 89/4 You lucky devil. You've got something to do today which you really love—and you're getting paid for it.
2005 Health Plus Jan. 20 The lucky winner will also win a pamper day for her and a friend at the award-winning Nirvana Spa in Berkshire.
b. Of an action, experience, period, etc.: (originally) characterized by success, prosperity, or good fortune; (in later use) benefiting from good luck; having a favourable outcome as a result of good luck.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune
eadilyOE
blessedc1175
selec1225
yblessed1297
fortunedc1374
fortunatec1386
happya1393
happenc1400
well-fortunedc1425
lucklyc1450
fortunablec1470
fortunousc1470
well-fortunate1474
richc1478
lucky?1510
comical?1569
well1577
propitious1581
felicious1599
auspicious1616
felicitous1641
bonifate1656
faust1676
weirdly1807
arsey1953
?1510 T. More in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus Ep. Ded. sig. A They desyre eche to other that yere a gode contynuance and prosperous ende of that lukky bigynnyng.
?1526 G. Hervet tr. Erasmus De Immensa Dei Misericordia sig. F.ii Howe laborous is the wrastlynge to vs al wt these leauynges of olde Adam? to howe fewe lucky [L. felix]?
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxiiijv Geuing thankes to his god, for that lucky successe.
1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good Prol. Fooles by lucky Throwing, oft win the Game.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 477 Ev'n then he dreamt of Drink and lucky Play.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 59 [There are] Instances of Reason and real Prudence preventing Men's undertaking what, it hath appeared afterwards, they might have succeeded in by a lucky Rashness.
1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa I. iv. 15 I reached this town with a whole neck. A lucky thing enough, considering how precipitously the postilions drove.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 122 And what's good Judgement, but a lucky Guess?
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 30 Less lucky her home-voyage.
1909 C. Young Motor Boys on Atlantic xxv. 200 Lucky escape, that... Five seconds more and he'd caught us.
1963 J. Drought Secret (1964) xx. 125 An improbable lucky bet on the horses, a punchboard win.
2005 D. Pritchard Epistemic Luck 2 Your lucky guess that the horse ‘Looby-Loo’ would win the 4.20 p.m. meeting at Kempton racecourse is hardly knowledge.
c. Of a phrase, literary composition, etc.: well-suited to the occasion apparently by good luck rather than design; unintentionally apt; felicitous. Now somewhat rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > apt or felicitous
exquisite?a1505
exquised1521
well-chosen1561
well-chose1595
apt1600
lucky1670
felicitous1867
1670 S. Patrick Further Contin. & Def. 384 You have very lucky words, and express my mind very well: Wit is not a thing to be studied or learnt.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical i. 6 There is more Wit in disguising a Thought of Mr. Lock's, than in a lucky Translation of a Passage from Horace.
1779 S. Johnson Waller in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 90 Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus.
1821 J. Hogg Winter Evening Tales (ed. 2) II. 53 I said this merely from the irritation of the moment... It was however a lucky phrase, and made some impression on my judges.
1858 London Q. Rev. Apr. 267/2 He [sc. Swift] was in the habit of jotting down in the night, as he lay in bed, any striking thought or lucky expression which passed through his mind.
1907 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 438 Bonald was not only a thinker (still remembered, if only for one lucky phrase: ‘L'homme est une intelligence servie par des organes’, which is a sort of hieroglyph of French idealism).
2007 A. Verhallen et al. in J. Warner Multi-stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Water Managem. xvi. 259 In Dourojeanni's lucky phrase, MSPs are slow to grow and quick to die.
3. Of an event or circumstance.
a. Occurring by chance and resulting in a favourable outcome; fortuitous.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune > of the nature of good fortune
luckya1547
fool-happy1590
providential1719
jammy1853
serendipitous1965
a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 34 When lucky gale of winde All thy puft sailes shall fil.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 207 Well met, Gentlemen, this is luckie that we meet so just together at this very door. View more context for this quotation
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 90 By the luckiest Chance in the World, I had not discharged myself of any part of it.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 192. ⁋2 His heir..sometimes by a wealthy marriage, sometimes by lucky legacies, discharged part of the encumbrances.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 5 This was a lucky recollection—it saved her from something like regret. View more context for this quotation
1860 Amer. Law Reg. 9 21 Within his knowledge no less than six innocent people had been condemned to death, and only saved from their fate by lucky accident.
1904 Harper's Mag. Feb. 462/2 And what a lucky chance that brought me a ‘special delivery’.
1953 Flying Apr. 63/1 As she dropped, a lucky gust of wind eased her down.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 4/3 The anonymous volume..might well have vanished into a merited obscurity but for a lucky accident.
†b. Occurring by chance; depending on chance. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective]
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1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Q3v All things o'r-rul'd are here by Chance; The greatest mans Inheritance. Where ere the luckie Lot doth fall, Serves but for place of Buriall.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 20 It were beyond the Possibility of the Wit of man to perswade him that this was done by the temerarious dashes of an unguided Pen..or by the lucky projection of so many Letters at all adventures.
1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother i. i. 2 My Royal Mistress Artemisa's fate, And all her Son Young Artaban's high hopes, Hang on this lucky Crisis.
1836 R. W. Emerson Lang. in Nature iv. 35 There is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies..they are constant, and pervade nature.
†4. Of a woman: good, blessed; attractive. Cf. lucky n.1 Obsolete.Chiefly in affectionate forms of address.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [adjective]
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1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 62 in Wks. (1931) II. 14 [Cotter addressing his wife] Ȝe gaif me leif, fair lucky dame.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 243 Lucky Besse, quoth he, (seeing her breasts all bare as farre as modesty would well permit, and her armes naked up to her elbow) art not a Cold?
1662 R. Brathwait Chimneys Scuffle 11 I my Crack-brain'd Amours did express As Woers should; Tom to his lucky Bess.
5. Scottish and English regional (northern). Of an amount, size, etc.: not less, and usually greater, than what is stated or expected; full, ample, generous. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]
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1649 Last Speeches Visct. Kenmuir 2 God..plucked them from their deceiving hopes, before they got half a wombfull, yea or a lucky mouthfull of the world.
1767 Ayr Presbytery Reg. MS 275 He was at that time working with Mr Dudgeon at Craighall about a lucky mile from the place where he should have been seen by said Key.
1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize II. xxxii. 315 The sun has been set a lucky hour.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) Country tailors generally receive directions to make their customers' clothes ‘brave and lucky’.
1897 T. Murray Frae Heather 64 A schule built ticht, and dry abune, Wi' sittin's for a lucky score.
1905 E. W. Prevost Suppl. Gloss. Dial. Cumberland 113/2 T' clogger said t' clogs wer lucky, but if yeh put a geud wusp o' stree intil 'em they'll fit.
1960 Brit. Baker 6 May 88 If one wishes a weight [of dough] to be on the light side, that is gimp... If the weight is required on the heavy side it is lucky.
†6. Of a person: useful, handy. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [adjective]
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1703 S. Centlivre Love's Contrivance i. iii. 14 You used to be a lucky Rogue upon a Pinch.

Phrases

P1. to thank one's lucky stars and variants: to feel grateful for one's good fortune; to count oneself fortunate. Now frequently as an imperative.
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1736 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature III. xix. 59 He on the opposite Side of the River rejoices at his good Fortune, and thanks his lucky Stars [Fr. se réjouit].
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 33 Aff I scours Blessing my lucky stars, an' hame I tours.
1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xix. 248 She praised her lucky stars, that in her place She never found neglect, nor felt disgrace.
1889 Wallace's Monthly Mar. 32/1 There is only one Bay City on the face of the globe, and thank our lucky star for that.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxv. 317 The Australian should probably thank Providence and his lucky star.
1959 J. Braine Vodi xxv. 261 Thank your lucky stars to be well out of it.
2008 Independent 3 Oct. (Life section) 6/3 Thank your lucky stars you have a husband who is active, rather than vegging in front of the sports channel with a stack of sandwiches.
P2. I'll (you'll, etc.) be lucky and variants: used to imply in an ironic or resigned way that someone’s wishes or expectations (usually expressed by an if-clause or to with infinitive) are unlikely to be fulfilled. Hence similarly I (you, etc.) should be so lucky (cf. shall v. 18d).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > expressing improbability [phrase]
I'll (you'll, etc.) be lucky1762
no such luck1775
leave alone1838
I (you, etc.) should be so lucky1989
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xviii. 75 When he gets these breeches made,..he'll look like a beast in 'em... And 'twill be lucky, if that's the worst on't, added my father. It will be very lucky, answered my mother.
1779 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XII. 316 The indefatigable Doctor has already discovered many thousand various readings in the Hebrew, and it will be lucky if he does not double the number of the Greek.
1817 M. Edgeworth Rose, Thistle, & Shamrock i. iii, in Comic Dramas 298 He hopes to get the new inn, and if he does, why, he'll be lucky.
1888 Times 6 Sept. 3/2 He will be lucky if he escapes with six months, ‘sharpened’ by one fast day a month.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xliv When he [sc. a millionaire] has paid his income tax and super tax, and insured his life for the amount of his death duties, he is lucky if his net income is £10,000.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier vi. 100 If he were, say, an Indian or Japanese coolie,..he wouldn't get fifteen shillings a week—he would be lucky if he got fifteen shillings a month.
1955 J. Morrison Black Cargo 14 It will need only one shout of ‘Sniper!’ and Lamond will be lucky to get out without being knocked down.
1973 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful iii. iv. 195 What proportion of national income..can one reasonably expect to be available for..job creation? I would say..you are lucky if you can make it five per cent.
1989 Guardian 22 Nov. ii. 42/8 Some men are very vulnerable when it comes to sex. They go around joking with friends: ‘I should be so lucky.’
2011 Independent 19 Apr. 12 (heading) Want to eat at one of these venues? You'll be lucky.
P3. lucky you (also him, her, etc.): expressing acknowledgement of someone else's good fortune. Similarly lucky me: expressing, often ironically, acknowledgement of one's own good fortune.
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > jealousy or envy [phrase] > expressions of envy
sour grapes1760
lucky you (also him, her, etc.)1821
1821 Port Folio Sept. 247 I have seen, lucky me, what you all want to see.
1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. xi. 171 She's..the finest figure in the whole county; lucky him who gets her.
1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. xii. 176 Lucky you to have work at home, and to stay with it.
1893 W. Elwin Let. 4 May in E. Lutyens Blessed Girl (1953) x. 190 Lucky you to be mothered by Betty.
1965 A. Roudybush Season for Death (1966) xxviii. 165 ‘I'm going to the flicks.’ ‘Lucky you. God bless!’
1972 R. Hill Fairly Dangerous Thing i. iv. 36 ‘I'm busy every night but tonight.’ ‘Lucky you,’ said Joe.
1994 A. Gurnah Paradise (1995) 205 As if your noisy dreams are not enough, you now hear music as well. I have two crazies on my hands, lucky me.
2011 Independent on Sunday 27 Nov. 42/5 You do? Lucky you! Perhaps I should go more often.
P4. to get lucky.
a. To become lucky; to have good luck, spec. to experience a stroke of good luck.
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1865 Jessie the Bookfolder xv. 172 ‘Well, Joe, you are getting lucky now,’ said the lawyer jocosely. ‘I have scent of a nice job for you.’
1923 Amer. Flint Feb. 45/1 There was just $999.90 on the table when Zell McIntosh blew in with two Buffalo nickels and made it an even thousand. Then he got lucky and broke us all.
1960 Life 26 Dec. 37/2 (caption) One night I got lucky and won $200 in a crap game.
1991 Atlantic Nov. 95/2 (advt.) You may get lucky and see something like a giant manta ray with a 12-foot wingspan.
2011 D. Fossen Dade ix. 106 Maybe they would get lucky, and Dade could hold off an assassin until backup arrived.
b. slang (originally U.S.). To succeed in finding or attracting a sexual partner, esp. for a casual encounter; to have sexual intercourse.
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1966 J. Adams & T. Tobias Borscht Belt 185 If he was scheduled to pick up the tenor or the magician after the show and he got lucky with a dame, they could sit in the lobby all night waiting for him!
1975 R. Karshner Monkey's Uncle i. 23 Clyde. You can't go out there like that. Sybil. Why not, maybe I'll get lucky.
1984 M. MacPherson Long Time Passing i. iv. 67 The first time I ever got lucky was up behind them windows over there. With Coleen.
1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming iv. xxxiii. 317 ‘Hey babe, you want to get lucky?’ the male Marines called.
2012 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 39 48 per cent of us have sex once a week, while 17 per cent claim to get lucky once a day!
P5. to be born under a lucky star: see born adj. 3a(a); strike me lucky: see strike v. 46c; to strike lucky: see strike v. 68e; third time lucky: see third adj. 1e.

Compounds

lucky bean n. any of various seeds thought to bring luck; esp. (a) (chiefly South African) a scarlet, black-tipped seed produced by the jequirity, Abrus precatorius (see jequirity n.); (b) a shiny scarlet bean produced by any of several kinds of coral tree (genus Erythrina).
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1895 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 651/3 (advt.) Lucky Beans.
1908 J. R. White & A. Smith Little Journey S. Afr. 103 The lucky bean is a small red seed tipped with black—hard enough to be set in gold and serve for years as a jewel.
1966 A. Batten & H. Bokelmann Wild Flowers Eastern Cape 77 Erythrina lysistemon Hutch. (Kaffirboom, Lucky Bean tree).
1970 J. McIntosh Stonefish 231 He..brushed away fallen red, black-eyed lucky beans.
2000 J. Simpson & S. Roud Dict. Eng. Folklore 219/1 There is a long tradition of these [large seeds] being found and treasured as amulets, under a variety of names—Lucky beans, Molucca beans, Sea beans, Virgin Mary's nuts, and so on.
lucky break n. colloquial a piece of good luck, esp. one that leads to success; cf. break n.1 18.
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1889 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 26 Aug. 2/6 ‘Will Indianapolis ever shake the old Maroon ill luck?’ is a question base ball experts have been asking for two years. Perhaps the lucky break has come at last.
1946 C. Bush Case Second Chance (1948) xiii. 165 Even with that evidence he hadn't much, and so all he could do was to hope for some sort of lucky break.
1992 B. Adams Brought to Book 1 Twenty-nine is considered young for the job, but I'd had a couple of lucky breaks along the way.
lucky charm n. something believed to bring good luck (cf. charm n.1 1a); (in later use also) a person believed to bring good luck.
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1700 C. Hickman 14 Serm. i. 13 The fond imaginations of a sickly brain: such as are all artificial Prognostications, unlucky Omens, and lucky Charms.
1865 Illustr. Times 25 Feb. 126/1 The origin of the use of the ‘cast’ shoe as a lucky charm..is not easy to determine.
1955 Sun (Baltimore) 9 July 12/2 Leo is convinced Willie is his lucky charm in any sort of ball game.
1990 J. Leavy Squeeze Play ii. 90 A lion's tongue fell out of Juan's back pocket... Arroyo said it was his lucky charm, but the umpire gave him the heave anyway and confiscated the tongue.
2012 Daily Tel. 5 July 3/1 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are fast becoming Murray's lucky charm after seeing him reach the quarter-finals last year.
† lucky-dad n. Scottish Obsolete a grandfather; = lucky-daddy n.
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1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI. f. 175v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Luckie Particullaris of the siluir wark that I gif for ane taikin to my oy..for luckie daidis gift.
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 75 My Lucky Dade [1787 lucky-dad], an honest Whig, Was telling Tales of Bothwell-Brig.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 216 The bits o' bairns, puir things, are wearying to see their luckie-dad.
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 72 Haud your feet, Lucky Dad, auld folk's no fiery. Literally, look to your feet, as you are not nimble.
lucky-daddy n. Scottish a grandfather; cf. lucky minnie n. Sc. National Dict. (at Luckie) records this word as still in use in north-east Scotland and the coastal areas of Angus in 1961.
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1706 Mare of Collingtoun in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems 59 I might have had for 't [sc. a Fillie] already, From my sweet Master's Luckie-dedy, Five Crowns.
1837 T. Daniel Poems (ed. 2) 79 Far to the north o' Aberdeen,—I've heard my lucky-daddy say..Folk thought it haunted by the diel.
1889 J. Fotheringham Carnoustie Sketches 71 The ‘silver spoon her “luckie-daddie” got frae his “luckie-daddie” on his deathbed’.
lucky day n. a day which brings, or will bring, a person good fortune; a day characterized by events of benefit or advantage to a person.
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1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. Miii Howe happily rose I on my ryght syde to day, or blessed me well, er I came forthe of dores this morning? O this happye or lucky day [L. fortunatum..diem].
1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) III. 120 It proved a lucky Day to the White Rose of York, and made the Red Rose of Lancaster look pale and wan.
1897 Badminton Mag. June 734 But this was my lucky day; I had hardly sat a minute behind my rock, when I suddenly heard and saw a hind come galloping towards me.
1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair xii. 115 Richardson wondered if this was going to be his lucky day.
2007 Neo Apr. 70/1 Her henchmen pick a gormless, love hungry civil servant, who thinks it's his lucky day when Eunjin asks him to marry her.
lucky dog n. colloquial a person considered by others to have more good luck than might be expected.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune > fortunate person or thing > fortunate person
Sunday daughtera1350
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Sunday child1800
tin-back1899
1682 Popish Hunt after Protestant Plot 2 By the Popes Toe, thou art a lucky Dog; for, as to the business you now mention, you could never have come in a better time.
1768 Adventures Miss Lucy Watson iii. 9 Thou wert a lucky dog to discover it; and I thank thee for the instruction.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xii. 147 He has come into his property... He's a lucky dog.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 604 You were a lucky dog if they didn't set the terrier at you directly you got back.
2006 C. Higson Blood Fever xv. 197 Im-m-agine you getting the chance to drive a Hispano-Suize, you lucky dog.
lucky loser n. Sport (a) (chiefly Tennis) a competitor who loses in the qualifying round of a competition, but is given a place in the main draw after the withdrawal of another player through injury, illness, etc.; (b) a competitor, team, etc., who is not placed highly enough to qualify automatically for the later stages of a competition, but who gains entry by being one of the best-placed losers, or by playing a further knockout round.
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1954 Mirror (Perth) 19 June 17/6 Miss Shilcock will now meet South African Miss A. I. Bilse, one of the ‘lucky losers’.
1987 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 1 Sept. Clark..had to wait until all four heats had been run and the times ratified before he knew whether he had gained one of the ‘lucky loser’ semi-final berths.
1995 Independent (Nexis) 8 Feb. 39 Jeremy Bates made his exit from the Dubai Open yesterday, unable to find an answer to the power of the German ‘lucky loser’ Carsten Arriens.
2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 4 Aug. b3/4 The Italians went 1-2 in the preliminary round... That forced Italy to play a lucky loser match on Friday night.
lucky money n. money believed to bring good luck; spec. (in Chinese contexts) such money placed in a red envelope and given as a gift. [With use with reference to southern China compare Chinese (Cantonese) leih sih token of good luck, the money in the red envelope, literally ‘profitable dealing’. In other parts of China, reference is usually made to the auspicious colour of the envelope rather than to its contents (compare red packet n. and red envelope n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i)).]
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a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iv. ii. sig. F3 in Five New Playes (1653) I do not beg; but came to offer This griev'd old man some of my infinite fortune Found in your lucky money: Lucky indeed; For I have found a Father by't.
1712 C. Johnson Wife's Relief iii. ii. 38 Some of thy lucky Money, might bring me home.
1866 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 22 343 The ‘lucky money’ of later ages is doubtlessly a relic of early superstition, and to this day, in China, a sword composed of old coin is looked upon as a charm of potent value.
1996 J. Brown Hong Kong & Macau: Rough Guide (ed. 3) 281/2 Married couples hand out lucky money in red envelopes (lai see) to their families and tip dustmen and cleaners in the same way.
2015 China Daily (Nexis) 24 June Chinese like to send gifts with good meanings... A high school gave lucky money to college entrance exam takers.
lucky nut n. a nut or other seed thought to bring luck; esp. †(a) a hazelnut with two or three kernels (obsolete); (b) (originally Caribbean) the seed of the yellow oleander, Thevetia peruviana, or the plant itself.
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1871 D. M. M. Craik Little Sunshine's Holiday vi. 107 A triple nut—a ‘lucky’ nut; as great a rarity as a four-leaved shamrock.
1893 Jrnl. Northamptonshire Nat. Hist. Soc. & Field Club Sept. 262 Occasionally two, or more rarely three kernels arrive at maturity, within the shell, these constitute the ‘lucky nuts’, the fortunate discoverer of which, it is said, is sure to have good luck.
1920 N. L. Britton & C. F. Millspaugh Bahama Flora 338 Cerbera Thevetia... Lucky-nut.
1951 E. P. Hume Some Ornamental Shrubs Tropics 135 The lucky nut is planted for ornament in the West Indies and to a lesser extent in other tropical regions.
2012 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Sept. h4 Like the oleander, plant parts are toxic, so don't eat the not so ‘lucky nuts’.
lucky proach n. [ < lucky adj. + a second element of unknown origin] Scottish (now rare) the long-spined bullhead, Taurulus bubalis.The name is sometimes, perhaps by confusion, associated with the similar short-spined bullhead, Myoxocephalus scorpius; cf. father-lasher n.
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1806 J. Stark Picture of Edinb. 430 The Father-lasher or lucky-proach, and Grey Gurnard or crooner..are common, but are not esteemed.
1853 Hogg's Instructor 1 8/2 That famous Father Lasher, Tom Shack, Lucky Proach,..hooked..from holes and fissures in the weed-covered rocks.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 445 One of the commonest of shore-fishes is the sea-scorpion or bullhead (Cottus scorpius), first cousin of the smaller father-lasher or ‘lucky-proach’ (Cottus bubalis).
lucky shamrock n. a shamrock, spec. one with four lobes, regarded as bringing good luck; a representation of such a shamrock; cf. four-leaf clover n. at four adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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1880 D. Baker Luck of Four-leaved Shamrock iii. 57 I had given away my lucky shamrock, and I had awakened from my dream.
1981 Weekly World News 26 May 38/3 (advt.) Genuine 24 karat gold..Lucky Leprechaun sitting on a Lucky Shamrock is guaranteed to bring you great Wealth.
2012 Northern Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 June 20 Sporting a new haircut with a lucky shamrock shaved into it, Withers is hoping to take a medal in his inaugural North Queensland games event.
lucky-starred adj. now rare having good luck, benefiting from good fortune; cf. starred adj. 3.
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1839 F. Montagu Mary Ashley iv. 38 ‘By my faith, its I that am lucky-starred’, said Larry, as he walked away in better spirits.
a1915 W. D. Scott Men of Lett. (1917) 115 Marjorie becomes an impeccable hostess, entertains brilliantly, adds lucky-starred babies Two, Three, and Four to the nursery.
1997 S. A. Levisay tr. H. von Auë Iwein (M.A. diss., Univ. of Wyoming) 52 Because you have been lucky-starred Now you must be on constant guard So that no great calumnity Results from her sublimity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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