Associations to the word «Canny»

Wiktionary

CANNY, adjective. Careful, prudent, cautious.
CANNY, adjective. Knowing, shrewd, astute.
CANNY, adjective. Frugal, thrifty.
CANNY, adjective. (Scotland) (Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
CANNY, adjective. (Northumbria) Very or much.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne