canty

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English

Etymology

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

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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.

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