canty

C3A1N1T1Y4

adjective

lively; cheerful; merry; brisk

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energetic
OriginDutch kantig →
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Meanings

canty1

adjectivecanty (comparative cantier, superlative cantiest)

comparative cantier · superlative cantiest

  1. lively; cheerful; merry; brisk

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

    1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
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    Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe

    1790, Robert Burns, Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson

Canty2

proper nounCanty (plural Cantys)

plural Cantys

  1. A surname from Irish.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivelively and brisk

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energetic
Also see
energetic

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

canty · adjective

  1. Dutchkantig
  2. Dutchkantig
  3. Englishcanty

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

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Canty · proper noun

  1. IrishÓ an Cháintighe“descendant of the satirist”
  2. EnglishCanty

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó an Cháintighe (“descendant of the satirist”), from cáinteach (“satirical”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with canty

pantyanteDantechiantiauntiezanteandantescantyantySantybantydubitantetranty
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APA

canty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canty

MLA

“canty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canty. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “canty,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canty.

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