clamjamphry

Scots

Noun

clamjamphry (plural clamjamphries)

1. Alternative spelling of clanjamphry
   • [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.]