clanjamfrie

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Scots

Noun

clanjamfrie (plural clanjamfries)

Alternative form of clanjamphry
- 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV) (in English), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, ; London: John Murray, , →OCLC:
  open the grate to sic a clanjamfrie
- 1925, Hugh MacDiarmid, The Bonnie Broukit Bairn:
  Mars is braw in crammasy,
  Venus in a green silk goun,
  The auld mune shaks her gowden feathers,
  Their starry talk’s a wheen o blethers,
  Nane for thee a thochtie sparin,
  Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn.
  - But greet, an in your tears ye’ll droun
  The hail clanjamfrie!.
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References

“clanjamfrie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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