Canny

Definition: Canny

Canny

Adjective

1. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "canny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Canny

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Intelligence Wisdom

Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.

Crosswords: Canny

How much caramel can a canny cannibal cram into a camel, if a canny cannibal can cram caramel into a camel? (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• A Canny Lad: The Early Life of Thomas Moffett: An Autobiography (reference)

• Canny Mr Glencannon (reference)

• Poems penned yesterday: the cheek o' some folk's no canny; fourth selection of verses (reference)

• The Diary of Canny Man 1818-1828: Adam MacKie, Farmer, Merchant and Innkeeper in Fyvie (Aberdeen University Press Books) (reference)

• Yi canny talk right : eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zur Verwendung des Glaswegian am BBC Radio Scotland und Radio Clyde (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "canny": canny player ♦ no canny. Additional references.

Ending with "canny": un-canny.

Albanian

kursimtar (economic, economist, parsimonious, prudent, saver, saving, thrifty), i urtë (acquiescent, compliant, docile, ductile, meek, mild, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, silent, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, tame, wise), i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, silent, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful, unruffled), i përshtatshëm (adapt, adequate, adjustable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, comely, competent, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, done, due, elastic, eligible, expedient, fit, fitting, germane, handy, likely, livable, liveable, opportune, Pat, proper, propitious, qualified, rated, relevant, seemly, suitable, suited, tenable, well-becoming, well-suited), i mirë (benign, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pleasant, pukka, salable, tops, virtuous), i matur (abstinent, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, discreet, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, provident, prudent, reasonable, sober, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced), i kujdesshëm (accurate, attentive, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, considerate, deliberate, diligent, forethoughtful, forward-looking, grandmotherly, guarded, heedful, monitorial, observant, precise, thoughtful, up and coming, wary), dinak (argute, artful, crafty, cunning, daedalian, devious, furtive, leery, pawky, sleeky, sly, wily). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حكيم (clever, compos mentis, discreet, doctor, judicious, philosopher, physician, politic, provident, prudent, sage, sapient, well advised, wise, wise man), ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тих (airless, breathless, calm, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), вещ (adept, discriminating, expert, object, proficient, scientific, skilful, skilled, sophisticated, thing), предпазлив (cagey, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, cosy, deliberate, deliberative, discreet, fabian, gingerly, guarded, open-eyed, precautious, prudent, sparing, ware, wary), пестелив (abstemious, economical, forehanded, frugal, husbandly, near, parsimonious, provident, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Czech

chytrý (cannie, clever, knowing, shrewd, smart), prohnaný (arrant, cannie, cunning, devious, dodgy, foxy), opatrný (cagey, cagy, cannie, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, gingerly, guarded, prudent, safe, shy, wary), mazaný (artful, cannie, crafty, cunning, nifty, sharp, slick, sly). (various references)

Farsi 

زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), عاقل (Sagacious, Sage, Sane, Sober, Wise), دارای عقل معاش . (various references)

French

sage, prudent (calculating, careful, cautious), malin (catchy). (various references)

German

umsichtig (cannily, circumspect, farseeing, farsighted, judicious, judiciously, prudent, prudently, wary). (various references)

Greek 

έξυπνοσ (alert, awake, brainy, cagey, cagy, clever, cute, hard-headed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, parlous, politic, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, spiffy), προσεκτικόσ (advertent, attentive, careful, cautious, chary, chary of, close, heedful, mindful, observing, painstaking, precautious, regardful, tactful, thoughtful, wakeful, wary, watchful), πανούργοσ (arch, artful, astute, crafty, cunning, designing, parlous, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, vulpine, wily), πονηρόσ (cunning, foxy, sly, tricky), επιφυλακτικόσ (cautious, chary, chary of, gingerly, gingery, guarded, non committal, offish, qualified, reserved, uncommunicative, undemonstrative). (various references)

Hebrew 

ערמומי (arch, artful, calculating, catchy, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, insidious, pawky, shifty, slicker, sly, underhand, wily). (various references)

Hungarian

ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Indonesian

cerdik (artful, astute, cunning, sharp, sharp-eyed, smart, tricky). (various references)

Italian

circospetto (cautious, circumspect, circumspective, discreet), astuto (arch, artful, astute, cagey, crafty, cunning, leery, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, wily). (various references)

Manx

kioot (acute, astute, clever, crafty, fly, foxy, intelligent, keen-witted, quick-witted, shrewd, smart, wily), glick (articulate, clever, foxy; hollows, foxy; hollows of the hand, politic, smart, sophisticated). (various references)

Norwegian

skarpsindig (discerning, ingenious). (various references)

Pig Latin

annycay

Portuguese

sereno (calm, composed, cool-headed, dew, even-minded, half-light, peace loving, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, self-collected, serene, smooth, sober-blooded, staid, stilly, tranquil, unflappable, unruffled, untroubled), sagaz (acute, adroit, astute, clearheaded, deep, diplomatic, discernment, judicious, keen, long sighted, political, prudent, sagacious, sapient, shrewd, sophisticated, wise), prudente (advised, careful, cattish, cautious, chary, circumspective, discreet, far sighted, far-sightedly, forehanded, heedful, longstanding, non committal, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sensible, sound, wary, well advised, well-judged, wise, wizard), perspicaz (acute, apprehensive, argute, astucious, astute, clear, clearheaded, clear-sighted, cute, discerning, far sighted, far-seeing, keen, long sighted, longheaded, penetration, penetrative, perspicacious, quick-eyed, sagacious, sharp, shrewd), inofensivo (harmless, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, pet, tame), hábil (able, adroit, artful, capable, cattish, circumspective, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, habile, ingenious, knacky, light-handed, neat, neat-handed, practitioner, skilful, skilled, skillful), gracioso (airy, beautiful, benign, comely, dainty, elegant, goodly, graceful, gracious, handsome, jimp, lightsome, lovely, seemly, slender, slim, well turned, willowy, witty), gentil (affable, bonny, dapper, delicate, dinky, elegant, friendly, kind, nice, pleasing, polite), frugal (abstemious, abstinent, chary, close, frugal, parsimonious, provident, sparing, thrifty), equilibrado (balanced, cattish, circumspective, decent, even, goodwill, leveling, robust), engenhoso (ingenious, resourceful, skilful, skillful), astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, astute, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, leery, longing, Machiavellian, perspicacious, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Romanian

chibzuit (balanced, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, economic, economical, judicious, measured, provident, providently, prudent, reflective, thought-out, thrifty, wary, wise), practic (actually, applied, business-like, commodious, experienced, hard-headed, matter of fact, practical, practically, pragmatic, purposeful, serviceable, sound, useful, virtually, worldly), norocos (blessed, fluky, fortunate, happy, lucky, prosperous, successful, thriving), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), deştept (able, active, awake, brainy, bright, clever man, cunning, cute, intelligent, patent, wise man), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy), şiret (arch, artful, cord, crafty, cunning, fox-like, gimp, guileful, lace, pawkily, pawky, sharp, shifty, sly, slyboots, slyly, string, subtle, tricky, wily). (various references)

Russian 

уютный (comfortable, cosh, cosy, cozy, homey, snug), осторожный (cagey, cagy, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, discreet, gingerly, prudent, wary, watchful), благоразумный (advisable, cannie, discreet, judicious, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sensible, staid, well advised, well-advised), практичный (businesslike, hardheaded, practical, shrewd, usable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mudar (astute, discerning, oracular, politic, sagacious, sage, sapient, well advised, wise), lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagey, cagy, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Spanish

sagaz (politic, sagacious). (various references)

Swedish

slug (artful, astute, cagey, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knowing, leery, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, tricky, wily), försiktig (cagey, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, gingerly, guarded, mealy mouthed, tentative, wary). (various references)

Turkish

zarif (classy, clever, courtly, dainty, Dandy, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, natty, neat, pretty, pulchritudinous, recherche, sharp, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tutumlu (careful, carefully, chary, frugal, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, sparing, thrifty), tedbirli (advised, cagey, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, deliberative, discreet, fabian, fail-proof, fail-safe, forethoughtful, guarded, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, tactical, wary, well advised), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), dikkatli (argus-eyed, assiduous, attentive, careful, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, heedful, intense, intent, mindful, particular, regardful, rigorous, scrupulous, sleepless, solicitous, studious, thoughtful, wary, watchful), açıkgöz (alert, astute, cunning, fly, heady, hip, knowing, leery, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, spry, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake). (various references)

Ukranian 

нестрашний, привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winning, winsome), при�"мний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy), практичний (applicative, applied, economic, hard bitten, hard-wearing, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, usable), підхожий (acceptable, adapted, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, befitting, eligible, feasible, fit, fitting, good, likely, meet, o.k., ok, okay, okey, opportune, proper, qualified, suitable), безпечний (permissible, safe, secure, tame, wholesome), лукавий (ambidextrous, arch, crafty, hollow-hearted, wicked, wily), економний (economic, economical, managing, sparing, thrifty), досить великий (biggish), неквапливий (deliberate, dilatory, easy, leisured, plodding, slow, unhurried), спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), обачний (awake, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, fly, guarded, hard-headed, provident, prudent, wary, wise), обережний (alert, careful, cautionary, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, fabian, gingerly, heedful, precautious, tender, up and coming, ware, wary, watchful), ощадливий (abstemious, chary, economic, economical, frugal, housewifely, inexpensive, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, scanty), вправний (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, deft, good, handy, jemmy, neat, neat-handed, nifty, practised, proficient), хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), розсудливий (advisable, conscious, healthy, judicial, judicious, politic, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sober, sober minded, wholesome, wise), спокійний (balanced, calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, deft, easeful, even-minded, halcyon, impassive, laidback, leisurable, orderly, placid, quiescent, quiet, relaxed, reposeful, restful, secure, sound, together, tranquil, unruffled), меткий (arch, artful, brisk, nimble, saucy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cẩn thận (careful, cautious, closely, conscientious, religious, tender, wary), từng trải (experienced, worldly-wise), lõi đời câu trả lời nước đôi, dè dặt (self-contained). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "canny": uncanny. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Canny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cancy, cani, cann, canne, cannis, canno, cannt, canony, canoy, Canty, cany, carny, Ccny, ceni, Cennydd, cinn, cinni, Clanny, cnan, conni, connu, cunn, cunny, cuny, cynn, Cynwyl, Ganny, lanny, Mcanenay, wanny. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nancy.

-1 letter: cyan.

-2 letters: any, can, cay, nan, nay.

-3 letters: an, ay, na, ya.

+1 letter: canyon, cranny, cyanin, nancys.

+2 letters: cannery, cannily, canonry, canyons, cayenne, cyanine, cyanins, infancy, lyncean, tenancy, uncanny, unfancy.

+3 letters: anodynic, candying, caninity, cannonry, cayenned, cayennes, cinnamyl, cyanines, cyanogen, fancying, instancy, nascency, regnancy, tangency, tyrannic, unchancy.

+4 letters: anciently, ancientry, annoyance, anthocyan, antimycin, antonymic, canopying, centenary, cinnamyls, connately, constancy, crayoning, cyaniding, cyanogens, gunnysack, immanency, inerrancy, kanamycin, picaninny, plangency, poignancy, pregnancy, stagnancy, synclinal, uncannily, uncleanly, uncynical, undynamic.

+5 letters: annoyances, anthocyans, antimycins, ascendancy, ascendency, asynchrony, benignancy, canonicity, carnifying, catchpenny, chardonnay, clankingly, clannishly, companying, consonancy, constantly, conveyance, countryman, cyanogenic, daunomycin, fancifying, glancingly, gunnysacks, hackneying, hemocyanin, incendiary, incessancy, innumeracy, itinerancy, johnnycake, kanamycins, malignancy, menacingly, mendicancy, necromancy, nonfaculty, nontypical, permanency, pickaninny, redundancy, repugnancy, sanctimony, subtenancy, synchronal, transiency, trenchancy, tyrannical, uncandidly.

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