Canty
WordNet
adjective
(1) Lively and brisk
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Quotations
- 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
- My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last. — Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights", 1847