Definition of "janty" []

• Archaic form of jaunty.. (adjective)

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• "While he was slumbering soundly in the cabin, many an eye was directed from the shore, and from the boats and vessels in the harbor, at the trim and janty yacht which had come in during the night."
• "She was even trimmer and more janty than he had supposed."
• "Now, really, our hero did not think half so much of the janty yacht he had captured as he did of the old tub, and we do not know that he would have taken the trouble to enter her cabin before he wanted a place to sleep, if he had not been hungry."