canny

adjective · adverbA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

cannier

Superlative

canniest

1.
Careful, prudent, cautious.
The politician gave a canny response to the reporter’s questions.
O! as thou art bonny, be prudent and canny,
2.
Knowing, shrewd, astute.
The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted.
3.
Frugal, thrifty.
canny investments
Đồng nghĩa: abstemious, canny, chary, moderate, cheap, close with a buck, economic, economical, frugal, husbandly, huswifely, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, spareful, sparing, spary, thrifty, tight, tightwad
4.
(Northumbria, Scotland)Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
She’s a canny lass hor like!
5.
(Northumbria, Scotland)Gentle, quiet, steady.
a canny horse
Be canny with this letter.
6.
(proscribed)Natural, normal.
7.
(especially)(especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.
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, […]

Trạng từ

adverb

1.
(Northumbria, not comparable)Very, considerably; quite, rather.
a canny long journey
canny near home
That’s a canny big horse, man!
2.
(Northumbria, Scotland, not comparable)Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.
he sits very canny
drive canny

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

abstemious chary moderate cheapclose with a buckeconomic economical frugal husbandlyhuswifelyparsimoniouspenny-pinchingprudent spareful sparing spary thrifty tight tightwad

Cùng gốc / liên quan

cannilycanniness

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro Northern English dialect, from can (to know) (--y), from Middle English can, first and third person singular of cunnen, connen (to be able, know how to), from Old English cunnan (to know how to, be able to). Compare canny, cunny, cann. More at can, cunning.