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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Persons collectively who are regarded with contempt; a mob; ragtag and bobtail.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Scotland Alternative form of clanjamphry.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Scot. Same as clamjamphrie.

Examples

  • “Miss Gillian, you've clavered as long as is good for Miss White, and here are the whole clanjamfrie waiting in the road for you.”

    Beechcroft at Rockstone

  • “The clanjamfrie, as Mrs. Halfpenny called it, mustered strong, and”

    Beechcroft at Rockstone

  • “at cam' up, efter the clanjamfrie had taen themsel's aff, an 'fand me lying upo' the hearthstane, I wad hae been deid or noo.”

    Alec Forbes of Howglen

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