Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clever in providing or finding ways and means; shifty.
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- adjective Ulster
cunning ,cute
Etymologies
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From Scots fendie ("able to look after oneself, thrifty, active, healthy, lively").
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Examples
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"Alice is both canny and fendy," said the bold Evan Dhu, with a cock of his bonnet, "and I ken nocht to hinder me to marry her mysel '!"
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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As they glided along the silver mirror, Evan opened the conversation with a panegyric upon Alice, who, he said, was both canny and fendy; and was, to the boot of all that, the best dancer of a strathspey in the whole strath.
The Waverley 1877
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:) Kapan Lagi adinoto: maret mungkin dah ganti tipe pak fendy ...
adinoto's blog adinoto 2010
sionnach commented on the word fendy
clever at contrivances in a fix, inventive; McGyver-like
June 11, 2009