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Canty vs Wanty - What's the difference?

canty | wanty |

As adjectives the difference between canty and wanty

is that canty is lively; cheerful; merry; brisk while wanty is possessing or indicating lack; deficient.

As a noun wanty is

a girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.

canty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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
  • *
    • My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

    Derived terms

    * cantily

    wanty

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) waynte, equivalent to .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (wanties)
  • (UK, dialectal) A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
  • (UK, dialect) A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of an animal.
  • (UK, dialect) A leather tie; a short wagon rope.
  • (UK, dialectal) A stretch of fishing-lines shot in the water.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, dialectal) Possessing or indicating lack; deficient.
    • (Webster 1913)