adv. Sc. [f. CANTY + -LY2.] In a canty manner, cheerfully, blithely, cheerily.
1721. Ramsay, Addr. Town Council Edinb. And cantily Your supplicant shall sing.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 206. When a the bit bonny burdies are singing sae cantily.