Canty

Full definition of canty

Adjective

1. lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
• Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe; — Robert Burns, "Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson", 1790
• Bronte Wuthering|XXIIMy mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

Derived terms

• cantily