> uncertain and difficult and not likely to last long > difficult or uncertain > unable to balance very well https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/engl

> uncertain and difficult and not likely to last long > difficult or uncertain > unable to balance very well https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rocky https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rocky The parent to your comment is correct, as are you about the specific reference in this case. The etymology of the Rocky Mountains is unrelated to either: > The Rocky Mountains were so called by 1802, translating French Montagnes Rocheuses, first applied to the Canadian Rockies. "The name is not directly self-descriptive but is an approximate translation of the name of the former Native American people here known as the Assiniboin .... The mountains are in fact not noticeably rocky" https://www.etymonline.com/word/rocky https://www.etymonline.com/word/rocky