As an adjective canny
is careful, prudent, cautious.
As a proper noun manny is
.
canny English
Adjective
( er)
Careful, prudent, cautious.
- (Ramsay)
Knowing, shrewd, astute.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Frugal, thrifty.
(Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
- She's a canny lass hor like!
* 1783 , (Robert Burns), "Green Grow the Rashes O", Songs and Ballads
- 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!
(Northumbria) Very or much.
- That's a canny big horse, man!
Derived terms
* cannily
* canniness
Related terms
* uncanny (Note: In common modern usage, "canny" and "uncanny" are no longer antonyms.)
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manny English
Noun
(mannies)
(informal) A male nanny (for children).
*2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. — CBS News , 9 June 2006
See also
* mannie
* Mannie
* Manny
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