cankeryadj.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lix. 417 Noli me tangere is a cancry posteme in þe face.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 607 (MED) If it were made in a morter of lede..it were þe better to alle cancry disposiciouns.

c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 28 (MED) Hitt helyth ryght wele old cancry sores, and also the same cancres and they be new.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 79 Others [seem'd to be] Cankery or Black-Chollery.

1796 J. Hunter Compl. Dict. Farriery Malt-worm, a cankery sore in the hoof of a horse.

1835 R. D. Mussey in Permanent Temperance Documents I. 494 Aphthous or cankery patches upon the same membrane.

1989 M. K. Matossian Poisons of Past x. 126 The most emotional of the revivalist preachers stated in 1744 that at the time of his extravagant behavior his body, especially his leg, was much ‘disordered’ with a ‘cankry humor’ (swelling and ulceration).

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 229 But an Æruginous or cankery Liquor, death.

1744 Wogan in J. Burton Genuineness Clarendon's Hist. 140 The ink being turned brown and cankry.

1827 J. Mitchell Dendrologia xii. 47 The water that killed mine [sc. a sycamore], was of a cankery nature, as if from bog, or coal.

1842 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 25 85 Lastly, there was the ‘cankery’ taste of the mother.

1917 Lancet 17 Feb. 265/1 A fortnight after the appearance of the jaundice she noticed a ‘cankery taste’, lasting for about an hour after taking food.

1943 G. Rosen Hist. Miners' Dis. ii. x. 430 Under such conditions they developed sore feet, swollen legs, and where the water was salt and ‘cankery’, stiff necks, boils, and carbuncles.

1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) vii. 136 Cut off as much as you can of the Cankry Boughs.

1716 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 4) II. xvi. x. 293 The small Russet sweet Apple, whose Tree is always Cankery.

1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Daucus If permitted to remain in the ground in winter, they [sc. carrots] would be attacked by vermin, and become cankery and rotten.

1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees vii. 96 Finding the Pear-trees in Kensington Gardens in a very cankery and unfruitful state.

1832 T. Bridgeman Young Gardener's Asst. (ed. 3) 197 Take away all cankery and decayed wood.

1856 J. W. Douglas World of Insects 62 The tree grows cankery, pines, and dies.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 15 Oct. (Weekend section) 30 The two donkeys..came up to the fence in search of windfalls, or the occasional cankery fellow which I threw down to them.

a1699 T. Nourse Campania Fœlix (1700) 260 No soft, cankery Speeches of Philip could move Demosthenes.

1791 A. Wilson Poems (ed. 2) 160 Right cankry to hersel' she cracket.

1791 A. Wilson Laurel Disputed ii. 21 The cankriest than was kittled up to daffin'.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 301 Cankrie care.

1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. ii.16 Nae wonder ye ne'er got a man, ye cankery runt, wi' your red neb and your tinkler tongue.

1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xxxviii. 296 One of them cankery chiels as never have a kindly word for man nor beast.

1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Cankered, cankery, cross, sour-tempered, out of humour.

1886 Good Words Apr. 269/1 Because I'm a nasty, hard, cankery, ugly, disagreeable old woman.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 19/2 Cankery, cross, irritable.