canty

From Dutch kantig (“sharp, nice, fine, edgy”).

• Rhymes: -ænti

canty (comparative cantier, superlative cantiest)

1. lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
   • 1790, Robert Burns, Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson

     Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe

   • 1845 October – 1846 June​, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: A Novel, volume XXII, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], published December 1847, OCLC 156123328:

     My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

• cantily

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