Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as clan-jamfrie.
- n. Rubbish; trumpery. Also clam-jamphrie.
Examples
“If you put it that way I don't care one jack straw for the whole clamjamfry of them.”
“Laird and leddies and bastards, the whole clamjamfry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clamjamfry’.
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Fun to say
These are the words you want to say for no reason besides how lovely they feel to come out of your mouth. Sometimes you even say them when no one is around.
toast, bleat, uvula, onomatopoeia, krackalackin, welt, pfefferkuchen, bahookie, clamjamfry, dint, kikiriki, rutabaga and 19 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Swishy Burbles
Words with a certain flowing, silly sound to them; I may as well have found them in a James Joyce novel.
podlec, shuckling, woofits, splenetic, wodges, dromedary, chickabiddy, doodsmak, plashoot, clawscrunt, dwergmal, wherrit and 159 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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Humbug and bafflegab
oil, rot, gas, gup, pop, jive, bull, jazz, guff, pish, tosh, flam and 83 more...
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condiment, tortoise shell, virile, wolverine, chyme, aeons, grotesque, pontiferous, blurb, dais, squiffy, decadent and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clamjamfry.
sionnach "Trumped the haggis with deep-fried ramlambfry."
Not for the first time, the leather-eared one shows signs of mitigating brilliance, nay, genius! Mar 4, 2009
bilby Trumped the haggis with deep-fried ramlambfry. Mar 4, 2009
bilby Pacified the unwashed with flimflamfry. Mar 4, 2009
bilby Cavorted a startling handstandfry. Mar 4, 2009
bilby Cajoled a wee lass to whambamfry. Mar 4, 2009
bilby Fell into a pot of jam Dumfrie. Mar 4, 2009
sionnach Praise the Lord! My search for a rhyme for hamspamfry is over.
The Edinbourgeoisie clamjamfry
Were having themselves a hamspamfry
When suddenly the Rabbi
(Confusingly named Rabbie)
......
distressingly, the last line of this fine "verse" appears to be lost to posterity. Unless some talented Wordie can manage to reconstruct it Mar 4, 2009
flannagan The mob or rabble (Scottish). Jul 30, 2007