clamjamfry

created by geeklizzard
(thing) by geeklizzard (4.4 y) (print)   (I like it!) Thu Jun 21 2001 at 4:28:56

A clamjamfry, in Scots dialect, is a crowd; a disorderly noisy bustling rabble. To clamjamfry a place is to fill it up with an unruly mob.

"Mr. Archie," said she, "I hope that I ken my place better. It would be a queer thing, I think, if I was to clamjamfry up your faither's house - that I should say it! - wi' a dirty, black-a-vised clan, no ane o' them it was worth while to mar soap upon but just mysel'! Na, they're all damnifeed wi' the black Ellwalds. I have nae patience wi' black folk."

--- Robert Louis Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston
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