canny

• It's no canny, I declare! —  Patsy
• I speered Cadger Gowans an' me's haen a swap," says Sandy, climbin' oot at the back o' the cairt, an' jookin' awa' roond canny-weys to the horse's heid Wo, Princie," he says, pettin' oot his hand. —  My Man Sandy
• Before this I have gratefully owed to Mrs. LOWNDES the raising of my remaining hairs like quills upon the fretful porcupine, but the ca'-canny bogies of her present story are too perfunctory to excuse even a shiver in any but the most unsophisticated reader It may, I suppose, be accounted for righteousness to Major-General Sir ARCHIBALD ANSON that in About Others and Myself (MURRAY) he is so little of an egotist as to convey scarcely any impression of what manner of man he is or what he thinks of this or that. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920
• He wore a blue dress-coat with gilt diplomatic buttons, white waistcoat, and blue trousers, and looked the "canny" Scotchman and Napier that he was. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
• The betting languished at evens Moreover, both sides were playing "canny," risking nothing, nursing their energies for the last furious five minutes. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship

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