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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ranny English
Noun
( rannies)
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
- instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus'' and ''Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny , blind [...].
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