griffonage

/ˈɡrɪfəˌnɑːʒ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

""We hastened to pack up our ‘trumpery’..and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage.""
"There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer."
"He gave a sort of passport, a συμβολον ξενικον, authenticated with such a portentous griffonage as would have done credit to Ali Pacha."

From French griffonner.

griffonages (plural)

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How do you pronounce griffonage?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡrɪfəˌnɑːʒ/.

What does griffonage mean?

Careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.

Where does griffonage come from?

It is traced to French.

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