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canty

[ kan-tee, kahn- ]

adjective

, Chiefly Scot.
  1. cheerful; lively.


canty

/ ˈkæntɪ; ˈkɑːn- /

adjective

  1. dialect.
    lively; brisk; in good spirits
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈcantiness, noun
  • ˈcantily, adverb
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Other Words From

  • canti·ly adverb
  • canti·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of canty1

1715–25; < Low German kantig lively; akin to cant 3
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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.

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.

I’m a plain, canty creature; godliness is cheerfulness, says I; give me my fiddle and a dram, and I wouldna hairm a flee.”

The lowliest heart a pride displays, Unkent in our ain early days, Ilk kind and canty thing decays, Wi', How 's a' wi' ye.

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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