cantilyadv.
/ˈkantᵻli/, U.S. /ˈkæntəli/, Scottish English /ˈkantᵻlɪ/ Scottish.
In a canty manner, cheerfully, blithely, cheerily.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adverb] > with lively cheerfulness
cantly1352
pertc1410
cantily1720
chirpily1923
1720 A. Ramsay Poems 330 And cantily Your supplicant shall sing.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 619 A' the bit bonny burdies are singing sae cantily.
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