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  • (noun) - (1) A company of people, especially a disorderly or vulgar crowd; a mob, rabble; "Such a clanjamphry of thievin' drunken miscreants," from Jane Barlow's Lisconnel (1895). Rubbish; trumpery; odds and ends. Nonsensical talk. Scotland, Ireland, Northumberland.

    --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

    (2) The "whole clanjamphrey," the mob; the rabble. Scotland.

    --Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922

    January 15, 2018