clanjamphry

Scots

Alternative forms

• clamjamfry, clamjamfrey, clamjamphry, clanjamfray, clanjamfrey, clanjamfry, clanjamfrie, clanjamphrey, clanjamphrie

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɑnˈd͡ʒɑmfrɪ̜/

Noun

clanjamphry (plural clanjamphries)

1. 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.]

2. Rubbish; nonsense.