clanjamphry
Scots
Alternative forms
- clamjamfry
- clamjamphry
- clanjamfray
- clanjamfrey
- clanjamfry
- clanjamfrie
- clanjamphrey
- clanjamphrie
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɑnˈd͡ʒɑmfrɪ̜/
Noun
clanjamphry (plural clanjamphries)
- Mob, rabble, crowd.
- [1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales (in English), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 242:
- He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.]
- Rubbish; nonsense.
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