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cankery, a.|ˈkænkərɪ|
Also 4– cankry.
[f. canker n. + -y1.]
†1. Of the nature of a canker; gangrenous. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (1495) 274 Noli me tangere is a cankry postume in the face.
2. a. Affected with canker.
1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 79 Others [seem'd to be] Cankery or Black-Chollery.
†b. Rusty; affected as if with rust. Obs.
1744Wogan in J. Burton Genuineness Clarendon's Hist. 140 The ink being turned brown and cankry.
c. Of trees.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 136 Cut off as much as you can of the Cankry Boughs. 1802W. Forsyth Fruit Trees vii. (1824) 188 Finding the pear-trees in Kensington gardens in a very cankery, and unfruitful state.
3. fig. Cankerous; ill-humoured, crabbed. Sc.
1786Burns Ep. Major Logan iv, Cankrie care. 1791A. Wilson Eppie & Deil Poet. Wks. (1846) 85 Right cankry to hersel' she cracket. ― Poems (1816) 40 (Jam.) The cankriest then was kittled up to daffing. 1864Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xxxviii. 296 One of them cankery chiels as never have a kindly word for man nor beast. |