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canty
[ kan-tee, kahn- ]
adjective
, Chiefly Scot.
- cheerful; lively.
canty
/ ˈkæntɪ; ˈkɑːn- /
adjective
- dialect.lively; brisk; in good spirits
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Derived Forms
- ˈcantiness, noun
- ˈcantily, adverb
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Other Words From
- canti·ly adverb
- canti·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of canty1
C18: see cant ³
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Example Sentences
They were a very canty and contented couple, for they had enough to live on, and enough to do.
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A late moon was rising over the taps by Balmaclellan, and the thocht that I was out on the heather hills set a canty fire in my breast.
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I’m a plain, canty creature; godliness is cheerfulness, says I; give me my fiddle and a dram, and I wouldna hairm a flee.”
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The lowliest heart a pride displays, Unkent in our ain early days, Ilk kind and canty thing decays, Wi', How 's a' wi' ye.
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We may find a way of being useful to Meggy yet, and until then, as my mother says, 'let's be canty with thinking about it.'
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