ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Griffonage

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈɡrɪfəˌnɑːʒ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Griffonage is a noun meaning (rare) Careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.

Meaning

(rare) Careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.

Example Sentences

"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.

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Related dictionary entries include scribblement, scribbling, scrawl, perigraph, scribbledom, grafitti.

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