Meanings
comparative more flukey · superlative most flukey · alternative fluky
- Lucky.
For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.
2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 Jun 2018Synonyms: jammy
- Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes.
We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLucky.
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Origin
Translations
Russian переменчивый
- переменчивый (peremenčivyj)unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes
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flukey. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flukey
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