Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Doubtful; uncertain.
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- adjective slang Of
dubious authenticity ,legitimacy orlegality . - adjective
Uncertain orchancy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective subject to accident or chance or change
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I dunno, I see "Syfy" and I see "siffy" at best ... and "iffy" is how I'm classifying this plan, in the end.
Women Respond To The Letter Y, Apparently daemonwise 2009
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Under the Bush administration, instead of building a framework that would embrace broader strategies, we invested, for instance, billions of dollars in iffy research to abate GHG emissions primarily from oil refineries and power plants, by pumping it into the subterranean geological strata.
Steven Apfelbaum: A Win-Win Policy: Conserving Lands and Mitigating Climate Change in a Public-Private Partnership Steven Apfelbaum 2010
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Under the Bush administration, instead of building a framework that would embrace broader strategies, we invested, for instance, billions of dollars in iffy research to abate GHG emissions primarily from oil refineries and power plants, by pumping it into the subterranean geological strata.
Steven Apfelbaum: A Win-Win Policy: Conserving Lands and Mitigating Climate Change in a Public-Private Partnership Steven Apfelbaum 2010
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Under the Bush administration, instead of building a framework that would embrace broader strategies, we invested, for instance, billions of dollars in iffy research to abate GHG emissions primarily from oil refineries and power plants, by pumping it into the subterranean geological strata.
Steven Apfelbaum: A Win-Win Policy: Conserving Lands and Mitigating Climate Change in a Public-Private Partnership Steven Apfelbaum 2010
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One thing about the Friday the 13th remake/reboot/whatever you may call it that makes me a bit iffy is that they are redoing one of the two most iconic horror franchises (the other being Nightmare on Elm St) from when I was growing up.
First Look: The New Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Basically you have Ferrell - whose recent output might charitably be described as "iffy" - working a couple of dweeby riffs for all they're worth.
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I'm gonna warn you, many of these places are no-name iffy places that might make you wonder if you if you'r on the wrong side of the grid.
unknown title 2009
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Sex is so normal that nobody pays much attention to what we might call iffy sex.
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The weather looks quite iffy, which isn't so bad for a bike ride on the greenway.
NextReformation 2008
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The weather looks quite iffy, which isn't so bad for a bike ride on the greenway.
NextReformation 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word iffy
aka dodgy.
November 17, 2007