flukey

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flukey

/ˈfluːki/

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adjective more flukey · most flukey · 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.
Similar: jammy
Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes. We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.

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adj unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes

Русский	переменчивый peremenčivyj

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@misc{flukey_2026,
  title = {flukey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flukey},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}