Clanny vs Canny - What's the difference?
clanny | canny |
clannish; socially exclusive
* 1991 , Gerald Lynch, Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers (page 35)
* 2004 , Karin M. Ekström, Helene Brembeck, Elusive Consumption (page 63)
Careful, prudent, cautious.
Knowing, shrewd, astute.
Frugal, thrifty.
(Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
* 1783 , (Robert Burns), "Green Grow the Rashes O", Songs and Ballads
(Northumbria) Very or much.
As adjectives the difference between clanny and canny
is that clanny is clannish; socially exclusive while canny is careful, prudent, cautious.clanny
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They were a clanny bunch who favored each other for jobs
- Each time I use a personal pronoun, I hear a mafioso echo, a clanny , insular, hegemonic reverberation
canny
English
Adjective
(er)- (Ramsay)
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- She's a canny lass hor like!
- But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,
- My arms about my dearie O;
- An' warl'y cares, an' warl'y men,
- Mae a' gae tapsalteerie O!
- That's a canny big horse, man!