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Canty

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Can´ty
a.1.Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.
Contented with little, and canty with mair.
- Burns.
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Adj.1.canty - lively and brisk
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
energetic - possessing or exerting or displaying energy; "an energetic fund raiser for the college"; "an energetic group of hikers"; "it caused an energetic chemical reaction"


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exclaimed she, on one occasion, 'if you would but dismiss such gloomy subjects from your mind, you would live as long as any of us; at least you would live to see the girls married, and yourself a happy grandfather, with a canty old dame for your companion.
Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context
My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.
Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily View in context
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