canny
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Careful, prudent, cautious.
- Knowing, shrewd, astute.
- Frugal, thrifty.
- Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
- Gentle, quiet, steady.
- pretty, quite, very.
- Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.
Adverb
- Very, considerably; quite, rather.
- Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.
Proper noun
- A surname.
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