clanjamfrie

Scots

Noun

clanjamfrie (plural clanjamfries)

1. Alternative form of clanjamphry
   • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, […], volumes (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!.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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