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Lucky vs Sucky - What's the difference?

lucky | sucky |

As adjectives the difference between lucky and sucky

is that lucky is favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune said of persons while sucky is (slang) being something which sucks, which is unpleasant or lacks value.

As a noun sucky is

a pacifier.

lucky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune. Said of persons.
    • a lucky adventurer
    The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
  • Producing, or resulting in, good chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate.
    • a lucky mistake
    a lucky cast
    a lucky hour

    Quotations

    * 1989 , Howard Ashman, “Under the Sea”, The Little Mermaid , Walt Disney Feature Animation *: They sad ’cause they in their bowl / But fish in the bowl is lucky / They in for a worser fate

    Synonyms

    * (favored by luck ): fortunate, successful * (producing or resulting in good chance ): auspicious, favorable/favourable, fortunate, fortuitous

    Derived terms

    * get lucky * lucky dip * lucky you * should be so lucky

    sucky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Being something which sucks, which is unpleasant or lacks value.
    • That comedian was pretty sucky on TV last night.
  • *2002 R. Jay Driskill: Necropolis: A Collection of Spectres [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595238939&id=oK5O8Mp5UeAC&pg=RA1-PA65&lpg=RA1-PA65&ots=V7UHvfqVAw&dq=%22Who%27s+isn%27t+sucky,+you+ask%3F+Mine%27s+exceedingly+sucky%22&sig=5F4GYYY4RZ5gfTyNsMcvKywGAp4]
    • My mother-in-law. Who's (SIC) isn't sucky', you ask? Mine's exceedingly ' sucky . More than average I'd say. She tries to turn my wife and kids against me...

    Noun

    (suckies)
  • A pacifier.

    • See also

    * sucky sucky/sucky-sucky

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