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:
- My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.