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canty, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈkæntɪ| [A deriv. of cant a., either native or of Low German origin: cf. Flem. and LG. kantig, similarly related to kant, there referred to.] Cheerful, lively, gladsome; esp. in Sc. manifesting gladness and cheerfulness; in north of England rather = lively, brisk, active: a. of persons.
a1724Gaberlunzie Man ii, He grew canty, and she grew fain. 1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. i. i, I'll be mair canty wi't, and ne'er cry dool. c1775A. Grant Roy's Wife, O, she was a cantie quean. 1789Burns To Dr. Blacklock, And are ye hale, and weel, and cantie? 1837Dickens Pickw. (1847) 406/2 Three or four..canty old Scotch fellows. 1845E. Brontë Wuthering Heights xxii. 193 My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last. 1864Atkinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘She's a canty aud deeam for her years.’ 1866Carlyle Remin. E. Irving 135 Canty, shrewd and witty fellows, when you set them talking. b. of things.
1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. i. ii, Little love or canty cheer can come Frae duddy doublets, and a pantry toom. 1786Harvest Rig in Chambers Pop. Hum. Sc. Poems (1862) 34 Till they do lilt some canty song. 1789Burns J. Anderson, And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither. |