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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

... by all that's lucky!" burst out Tom suddenly, as he rushed up to a youth of about his own age who sat on a trunk ...

— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield

... allus was silly as a goose about that Drugg. Sech shiftlessness I never did see. There the young'un was, out in a white dress an' white kid shoes this mornin'—her best, Sunday-go-ter-meetin' clo'es, I'll be bound!—sittin' on the aidge o' that gutter over there, makin' a mud dam! Lucky yesterday's rain has run off now, or she'd be out there yet, paddlin' in ...

— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... lucky bug on the water," he said presently. "If we were in now, we might catch him, ...

— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

... and his own lucky star To him perfected wisdom show, The schooner glides across the bar, And beer for him shall freely flow; A pipe with genial warmth shall glow, To which he turns in direst need, To seek in smoke surcease of woe,— A slave is ...

— Pipe and Pouch - The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry • Various

... keep back eny five dollar bills, the preecher got up on a platform and draw'd a number out of a hat full, wot a littel gal held over her hed. 'Fore he red out the number, he called on one of the deecons to offer up a prayer, that the Lord mite open up the hart of the lucky drawer, to donate the oyster to the church, so as they culd hold a nuther supper, without incurrin ...

— The Bad Boy At Home - And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 • Walter T. Gray

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