canny
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Is canny a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (Scotland, Northumbria) Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.Examples: "She’s a canny lass hor like!"; "But gie me a cannie hour at e’en, My arms about my dearie O; An’ warl’y cares, an’ warl’y men, Mae a’ gae tapsalteerie O!"NorthumbriaScotland
2. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady.Examples: "a canny horse"; "Be canny with this letter."NorthumbriaScotland
3. (Scotland, Northumbria) pretty, quite, very.Examples: "That's a canny big hoose like."NorthumbriaScotland
adv (English)
1. (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather.Examples: "a canny long journey"; "canny near home"; "That’s a canny big horse, man!"Northumbrianot-comparable
2. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.Examples: "he sits very canny"; "drive canny"NorthumbriaScotlandnot-comparable
adj (English)
1. (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.Examples: "The rear sounds sounded canny compared to the front ones. And you also have to adjust the volume so both pair of speakers are at the same level, […]"; "I am using the stereo outs, I am getting nice reverb out of it but the probelm^([sic]) is the entire sound is like i said like its coming through a can. even when in bypass mode it sound "canny". Thank you for your input. Stacey"; "I was approch. 3 meters from the stage and the sound was very good from there. But if you had seats way up at the sides or at the back I can understand that you could have experienced a "canny" sound."especially
Definition source: Wiktionary