canty adj.1
(Irish/Scot.) pleasant, cheerful; neat, thorough.
Lucky Spence’s Last Advice [ballad] Wi well crish'd Loofs I hae been Canty; / [...] / To try the auld Game Taunty Ranty,. | ||
Fables and Tales 9: In short he famish’d midst his Plenty, / Which made surviving Kindred canty. | ‘The Miser and Minos’||
Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 15: Now Lindy is as canty as a midge. | ||
Death and Dr. Hornbook in Works (1842) 14: The Clachan yill [ale] had made me canty, I was na fou, but just had plenty. | ||
‘Musle-mow’d Charlie’ in | (1995) 13: For truth he was a canty carle.||
Poems in Scot. Dialect 23: An’ younder’s canty Tibby Sma’, A sonsy mettle hizzy. | ‘May Morning’||
‘Roy’s Wife of Aldivallock’ Garland of New Songs 8: O she was a canty queen. | ||
Bawbee Bagpipe No. 9 1: A glass o’ Ale’s a canty thing, / It makes a body nappy. | ||
Dundee, Perth & Cupar Advertiser 15 Dec. 1/1: Wi’ canty tale and funny joke, wi’ launchin’ when ther tailor spoke. | ||
Dunfermline Press 27 Aug. 4/1: A cracking, canty carl was he. | ||
Weir of Hermiston 287: cantie, cheerful. | ||
Buchan Obs. 4 Sept. 3/5: The sma bit bonnie villagie o’ Meedlick, wi’ its twa three clean canty houses. | ||
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 13 May 2/3: Ma mither, canty, neat and crouse. / Ma faither, best o’ men. | ||
Confessions 223: Numerous canty bodies make a wheen of ha’pence on the export trade. |