canty
English
Etymology
From Dutch kantig (“sharp, nice, fine, edgy”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænti
Adjective
canty (comparative cantier, superlative cantiest)
- 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 156123328:
- My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.
- 1790, Robert Burns, Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
Derived terms
- cantily
Anagrams
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