fluky
/ˈfluːki
/(also flukey /ˈfluːki/)
adjective (flukier, flukiest)
Obtained or achieved more by chance than skill: a fluky goal...
- And there was nothing flukey about the results obtained.
- Generally speaking, the players gave it a good shot and it was a fluky second goal.
- Few things grate a Canadian hockey fan more than seeing one of our national teams lose to an American team, especially when the game was decided by a lousy, fluky goal.
Synonyms
lucky, fortunate, providential, timely, opportune, serendipitous, expedient, heaven-sent, auspicious, propitious, felicitous, convenient, apt;
chance, fortuitous, accidental;
unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, coincidental, haphazard, inadvertent, random, unintended
British informal jammy
Derivatives
flukily
- I can, quite flukily, produce a respectable salmon but it will be accompanied by charred fingers, mayonnaise where oil and egg sulk in separate corners of the bowl, frayed tempers and slammed fridge doors.
- Depending on which side you were supporting he either showed a piece of brilliance by cleverly kicking the ball over the try line or flukily made contact with ball as he flung his boot at it.
- Later I went back to school and was hired, flukily, to be the associate editor of a journal called Gulf Coast, out of the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas (godforsaken town).
flukiness
- But your first single will be a sly interpretation of a pop classic, a cutting, winking comment on the throw-away existential flukiness of your new-found celebrity.