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Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day: Canny
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canny
(can·y) Dialect, chiefly Scot ~adj
1. cautious, careful, hesitant, unwilling to rush into things.
2. frugal, prudent (esp. with money) [a canny Scot - one who has an aversion to separating money from his pocket] (as in “He’s that canny he aye pays for his round wi’ empty lemonade bottles“).
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[...] My wife called me canny yesterday and explicitly referenced my post on [...]
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If I can remember it straight, I think canny, in the sense of being frugal, was a term my grandfather used to use in some of his more famous expressions.
Some of them are X rated, but would start off with something like, …He’s so canny, he would …
Which is very similar to your definition.
Perhaps he was more of a literally soul that I gave him credit for.