canty

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The children ask for "canty," the women want "matchi," and the men are pleased with a "smoke On the morning of the dance both the men and women give their hair an extra washing by using a mixture of water and crushed soap-root.

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  1. Lively; sprightly; cheerful: applied to persons and things. Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair. Burns, Song. Then at her door the canty dame Would sit, as any linnet gay. Wordsworth, Goody Blake. There were the bailie's wife, and the bailie's three daughters, and the bailie's grown-up son, and three or four stout, bushy eyebrowed, canty old Scotch fellows. Dickens, Pickwick, xlix.

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  1. North English and Scots, also cant; from Middle English cant, kant, spirited, bold: see cant.
 

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