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ca'canny|kaˈkænɪ|
Also (after northern dialects) -conny.
[See call v. 15, canny a. 10.]
Moderation, caution; spec. the practice of ‘going slow’ at work; a deliberate policy of limiting output of work. Freq. attrib.
1896Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 1/3 He was the first English Labour leader to reduce to a fine art the ‘ca'conny’ policy so well known in Western America. 1896Seamen's Chron. 24 Oct. in Times 18 Nov. (1901) 10/1 What is ca'canny? It is a simple and handy phrase which is used to describe a new instrument or policy which may be used by the workers in place of a strike. 1902Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 8/1 A ‘ca-canny’ policy said to have been deliberately adopted by certain trade union officials. 1958Economist 29 Nov. 784/1 The teaching staff defends itself skilfully from battle to battle with cynicism and ca'canny.
Hence ca'ˈcannyism, ca'ˈcannyness (or -iness), ca'canny policy or behaviour; caution.
1917Glasgow Herald 9 Aug. 3/7 The letter..unintentionally detracts, by its extreme ‘ca'cannyness’, from the merits of the proposed scheme. 1921Glasgow Herald 17 June 6 Mr. Ramsay Macdonald recommends ‘a magnificently organised system of passive resistance’, which, plainly interpreted by his followers, means Ca'-cannyism. 1926W. S. Bruce Salt & Sense 186 To-day we have a new word for a novel disease, which began first on the Clyde. It is called ‘Ca'cannyism’. 1963Economist 16 Mar. 976/2 The entrenched forces of ca'canniness. |