canny
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
Adj
- Careful, prudent, cautious.
- Knowing, shrewd, astute.
- Frugal, thrifty.
- Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
- Gentle, quiet, steady.
- Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.
Adv
- Very, considerably; quite, rather.
- Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.
Origin / Etymology
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 Scots canny, English cunny, Old English cann (“knowledge, assertion”). More at can, cunning.
Synonyms
abstemious, cagey, cagy, canny, chary, cheap, clever, close with a buck, economical, frugal, husbandly, huswifely, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, spareful, sparing, thrifty, tight, tightwad
Scrabble Score: 10
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