canty
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of canty
1715–25; < Low German kantig lively; akin to cant 3
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John Anderson, my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither.
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
I'm not so canty as you'll mind me.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Duncan was a lad o' grace; Maggie's was a piteous case; Duncan couldna be her death, Swelling pity smoor'd his wrath; Now they're crouse and canty baith: Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
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.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
But the canty auld wife cam till her braith, And she thocht the Bible micht ward aif scaith; Be it benshee, bogle, ghaist, or wraith— But it fear’d na Aiken-drum.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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