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Sanny vs Canny - What's the difference?

sanny | canny |

As a noun sanny

is (uk|dialect) the sandpiper.

As an adjective canny is

careful, prudent, cautious.

sanny

English

Noun

(sannies)
  • (UK, dialect) The sandpiper.
  • (Webster 1913)

    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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