English

Noun

clanjamfrie ‎(plural clanjamfries)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of clanjamphry
   • 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!.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)