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say it: kant
cant is a noun and verb meaning "stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
“they don't speak our lingo”
insincere talk about religion or morals
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.