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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Now, Jocky, I must here explain I wasna drunk, just fou ye ken; Just fresh and free and swaggerin' canty, And bauld as Wallace wight and vaunty.
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint
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
A fine, canty, friendly, cracky man, that suffered with the stomach, poor body! and was rael ta’en up about the good-brother.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
They 'll sing you yet a canty sang, Then, O, in pity, let them be!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
I’m a plain, canty creature; godliness is cheerfulness, says I; give me my fiddle and a dram, and I wouldna hairm a flee.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson
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