canty
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of canty
1715–25; < Low German kantig lively; akin to cant 3
Example Sentences
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I'm not so canty as you'll mind me.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Lord preserve me, to see them sittin' sae croose an' canty ower Effectual Callin' an' Reason Annexed, as gin they had been crackin' an' singin' in a change-hoose!
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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.'
From The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run by Hope, Laura Lee
God bless your honours, can ye see’t, The kind, auld, canty carlin greet, An’ no get warmly on your feet, An’ gar them hear it!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
They were a very canty and contented couple, for they had enough to live on, and enough to do.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
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