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Webster 1913 Edition
Canty
Can′ty
,Adj.
Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.
“The canty dame.” Wordsworth
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Contented with little, and
canty
with mair. Burns.
Definition 2024
canty
canty
English
Adjective
canty (comparative cantier, superlative cantiest)
- lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
- Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe; — Robert Burns, "Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson", 1790
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter XXII
- My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.