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Nimble vs Canny - What's the difference?

nimble | canny |

As adjectives the difference between nimble and canny

is that nimble is quick and light in movement or action while canny is careful, prudent, cautious.

nimble

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Quick and light in movement or action.
  • He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
  • Quick-witted and alert.
  • She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

    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

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