"ca canny" meaning in Scots

{
  "etymology_text": "From ca (“call; drive”) + canny (“gentle”).",
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      "expansion": "ca canny",
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  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "‘Take it easy, man,‘ said he, as I approached — ‘Take it easy, Saunders — don't drag people along the road to heaven at that rate, man.‘",
          "ref": "1836, Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge:",
          "text": "‘Ca' canny, man,’ said he, as I approached — ‘Ca' canny, Saunders — dinna rive folk alang the road to heaven at that rate, man.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Be careful and fly low. Be careful and you'll break no gear.",
          "ref": "1868, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland:",
          "text": "Ca' canny and flee laigh. Ca' canny and ye'll break nae graith.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Some where real fighters and you could spot them a mile away, so then you had to take care. You just take care.",
          "ref": "2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 390:",
          "text": "Some were real fighters and ye could spot them a mile away, so then ye had to caw canny. Ye just caw canny.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to drive gently; (hence), to go easy, to be careful"
      ],
      "id": "en-ca_canny-sco-verb-GGRy685a",
      "links": [
        [
          "easy",
          "easy"
        ],
        [
          "careful",
          "careful"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ca' canny"
        },
        {
          "word": "ca cannie"
        },
        {
          "word": "caw canny"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑː ˈkani/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ca canny"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From ca (“call; drive”) + canny (“gentle”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "ca canny",
      "name": "head"
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  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
        "Scots lemmas",
        "Scots multiword terms",
        "Scots terms with quotations",
        "Scots verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "‘Take it easy, man,‘ said he, as I approached — ‘Take it easy, Saunders — don't drag people along the road to heaven at that rate, man.‘",
          "ref": "1836, Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge:",
          "text": "‘Ca' canny, man,’ said he, as I approached — ‘Ca' canny, Saunders — dinna rive folk alang the road to heaven at that rate, man.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Be careful and fly low. Be careful and you'll break no gear.",
          "ref": "1868, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland:",
          "text": "Ca' canny and flee laigh. Ca' canny and ye'll break nae graith.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Some where real fighters and you could spot them a mile away, so then you had to take care. You just take care.",
          "ref": "2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 390:",
          "text": "Some were real fighters and ye could spot them a mile away, so then ye had to caw canny. Ye just caw canny.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to drive gently; (hence), to go easy, to be careful"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "easy",
          "easy"
        ],
        [
          "careful",
          "careful"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑː ˈkani/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ca' canny"
    },
    {
      "word": "ca cannie"
    },
    {
      "word": "caw canny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ca canny"
}