canty

He was declared to be the same "canty" fellow as ever, and, though he had risen greatly in the world, he was "not a bit set up."

The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

He was enjoying his sartorial liaison with the spirited young woman—the cheek of that canty “I should like to thank the rescuer” still glowed in his head—and he wanted nothing to disturb it.

Aching for Always Gwyn Cready 2010

They took after us, of course, and we led them a canty chase uphill and through burns and over rocks and such; and all the while the rest of Dougal's men were making off over the border wi 'the kine.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

“Did I know Kate Happer?” replied the widow; “as well as the beggar knows his dish — a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain maybe twenty years syne.”

The Monastery 2008

My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

Wuthering Heights 2002

Take my word for it, the canty quiet lilt in the evening, and the lights low, and calm and honest thoughts with us, is better than all the rant and chorus, and I've tried them both.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

A house that is canty, with wealth in 't, my laddie?

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

"Oh, Richard!" exclaimed she, on one occasion, "if you would but dismiss such gloomy thoughts from your mind, you would live as long as any of us – at least you would live to see the girls married, and yourself a happy grandfather with a canty old dame for your companion."

Agnes Grey 1931

SND (s.v.) gives variants: Argyll 1936: "Cock-a-bendie and his wife,/O, but they were canty"; Edinb.

Cockie Bendie 1932

‘Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that: their house is muckle eneugh, and clecking3time’s aye canty time.

Chapter I 1917