Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Doubtful; uncertain: an iffy proposition.
Wiktionary
- adj. slang Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
- adj. Uncertain or chancy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. subject to accident or chance or change
Etymologies
- if + -y (Wiktionary)
- From if. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“I dunno, I see "Syfy" and I see "siffy" at best ... and "iffy" is how I'm classifying this plan, in the end.”
“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
“Basically you have Ferrell - whose recent output might charitably be described as "iffy" - working a couple of dweeby riffs for all they're worth.”
“Sex is so normal that nobody pays much attention to what we might call iffy sex.”
“The weather looks quite iffy, which isn't so bad for a bike ride on the greenway.”
“Ever buy a gun you were 'iffy' on but then loved it?”
“Arbon, are you speaking in generalities (Microsoft OS products are 'iffy' right out of the box!) are do you have current experience with an unstable Win7 product? arbon”
“Arbon, are you speaking in generalities (Microsoft OS products are 'iffy' right out of the box!) are do you have current experience with an unstable Win7 product?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘iffy’.
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important
shamanism, consol, sanguine, iffy, affinity, concatenation, honed, innumberable, aiden, inexorable, vet, suss and 176 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Scriptie: The Shakespearean Language ...
It isn't all about fucking cocksuckers. There aren't too many shows on TV that use Wordie words. (So of course it was cancelled.)
Best viewed in cloud format.sweggen, hooplehead, cocksucker, dope, yankton, camp, pussy, bonanza, laudanum, chinaman, hoecake, free gratis and 210 more...
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arnon's Words
treatise, enthrall, nimble, hinder, serene, transhumanism, meliorism, denote, apropos, equivalence, valence, orthogonal and 156 more...
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redchuck's Words
diagetic, melungeon, palimpsest, y'all, fandango, corpuscule, dibble, bedouin, flanger, antediluvian, camphor, nadir and 69 more...
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sundress's Words
invariant, metadata, emergence, recursion, chaos, countability, portmanteau, wobbly, cisgender, hypoxia, epicene, iffy
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plutoman's list
fossick, rat's razoo, barmy, bohemian, talisman, tagada tsoin-tsoin, ponsonby, badugi, ombudsman, obfuscate, zombie, forgettory and 56 more...
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Favourite Adjectives
cumbersome, embattled, murky, pervasive, well-heeled, overarching, intractable, evenhanded, fledgling, restive, stalwart, threadbare and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for iffy.

sonofgroucho aka dodgy. Nov 17, 2007