Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK, dialectal, not comparable)Lively, lusty.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Who understands the words canted by thieves?

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  2. The roofs of the city canted down in an ever downward slope.

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  3. That's thieves' cant.

    deDas ist Gaunersprache. — Tamy

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  4. Ganovim-loshn was a Yiddish thieves' cant.

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  5. Gay people in Britain used to speak a cant called Polari.

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Origin

From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant, perhaps a slang

From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant, perhaps a slang word related to kant (“edge, rim”), from Medieval Latin canthus. Attested from the 13th or 14th century.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
canoeC1canonB2canopycantaloupecantankerouscanteenB1canton

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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