cankery

adjective7

1. •
   Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.

   • In the pruning of standards give only occasional pruning, to reform or remove any casual irregularity from cross-placed or very crowded branches; and take away all cankery and decayed wood . — 1830
2. •
   Marked by cankers; ulcerous.

   • It is powerfully effecacious in the cleansing and arresting the progress of cankery affections of every kind, and removing all local foulness from any part . — 1833
3. •
   Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths)

   • Pares from their feet the cankery rot. — 1936
4. •
   Surly; cantankerous.

   • Every body kens, Miss Mizy, that thou's a cankery creature , and that had thou no been sae, I might hae been quit o' thee lang syne; but nae fool cast up that would be fashed wi' thee. — 1822
5. •
   Rusty; corroded.

   • cankery water — "impure, poisonous water, red in colour" ( Wade , South Moor , 1966 ) — 2007
6. •
   Corrosive.

   • And awful things happen to people who break their promises, things that make their insides turn green and cankery . · — 1919
7. •
   Metallic or bitter.

   • Mercury or Podophyllin, as purgative for cankery taste unconnected with alcoholism — 1912