Meaning

7 senses
  1. Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.

  2. Marked by cankers; ulcerous.

  3. Rusty; corroded.

  4. Corrosive.

  5. Metallic or bitter.

  6. Surly; cantankerous.

  7. Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths)

Origin

From canker + -y.

From canker + -y.

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Forms

more cankery, most cankery
Comparativemore cankery Lesson
Superlativemost cankery Lesson

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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