cannie

This was true, for Geordie Sinclair was rather a "cannie" man, and had never been given to beating his children before.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

Then wait a wee, and cannie wale [sensibly choose]

Country Lassie 1999

Whereupon his lordship replied: 'Ay! ay! my cannie laddie! an' I was predestined to hang ye for't. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The mate of the schooner was a cannie Scot; by name,

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

When yon lassie was singin 'sae bonnie, "John Anderson, my Jo," a' the fowk's heids were hingin '; but at "Scots wha hae" they sat up like life gairds, and ilky body near me lookit like's it wudna be cannie speakin' to them.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

It was painful to leave such an agreeable companion, but then what a relief it was to escape from the cannie Scots!

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

As exponents of the cautious, cannie Scot we should think them a satire did we not know what a wild vein of Celtic wit runs through the granite foundation of his character.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

He was a very plain-looking Scotch lad and very cannie.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

‘I’ve laid about, steer’d about, laid about cannie, 25

Bonnie Annie 1910

On the head of this auld Glen and I had another jug, three being cannie, after which we were both a wee tozymozy.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909