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Thesaurus: canty

Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.

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Definitions

  1. a. Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.
  2. adj. lively and brisk
  3. Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry. "The canty dame." Wordsworth [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Contented with little, and canty with mair. Burns.
  4. Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry. "The canty dame."Wordsworth [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]Contented with little, and canty with mair. Burns.