canty

English

Etymology

From Dutch kantig (“sharp, nice, fine, edgy”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænti

Adjective

canty (comparative cantier, superlative cantiest)

1. lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
   • 1790, Robert Burns, Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson:

     Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe

   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

Derived terms

• cantily

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