clanjamfrie

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 230697985:
  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!.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for clanjamfrie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.