Cants vs Canty - What's the difference?
cants | canty |
lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
* Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe; — , "Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson", 1790
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As a noun cants
is plural of lang=en.As a verb cants
is third-person singular of cant.As an adjective canty is
lively; cheerful; merry; brisk.canty
English
Adjective
(er)- My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.