Meanings
plural griffonages
- countablerareuncountableCareless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.
"We hastened to pack up our ‘trumpery’..and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage."
1832, Frances Milton Trollope, “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), published 18392 more examples
There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer.
1834, Maria Edgeworth, HelenHe gave a sort of passport, a συμβολον ξενικον, authenticated with such a portentous griffonage as would have done credit to Ali Pacha.
1838, C. M'Farlane, Esq., “The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in all Parts of the World”, in The Quarterly Review, volume CXXI
Origin
- Frenchgriffonner
- Englishgriffonage
From French griffonner.
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