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canny

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

  1. Careful, prudent, cautious.
  2. Knowing, shrewd, astute.
  3. Frugal, thrifty.
  4. Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
  5. Gentle, quiet, steady.
  6. pretty, quite, very.
  7. Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.

Adverb

  1. Very, considerably; quite, rather.
  2. Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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