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griffonage

/ˈɡrɪfəˌnɑːʒ/

griffonage noun: careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.

Noun

griffonage (countable and uncountable, plural griffonages)

  1. (rare) Careless 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 1839
    • There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer.1834, Maria Edgeworth, Helen

griffonage meaning in Bengali

griffonage in Bengali

অপাঠ্য, এলোমেলো হাতের লেখা

Forms of griffonage

pluralgriffonages

Origin of griffonage

From French griffonner.

Questions about griffonage

What does griffonage mean?
Griffonage means careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.
What is griffonage in Bengali?
Griffonage in Bengali is অপাঠ্য, এলোমেলো হাতের লেখা. See Griffonage meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is griffonage?
Griffonage is a noun.
How do you pronounce griffonage?
Griffonage is pronounced /ˈɡrɪfəˌnɑːʒ/.
What is the plural of griffonage?
The plural of griffonage is griffonages.

Words near griffonage in the dictionary

  1. Griffon Nivernais
  2. griffon vulture
  3. griffon vultures
  4. griffon-vulture
  5. griffon-vultures
  6. griffonage
  7. griffonages
  8. griffonne
  9. griffonnes
  10. griffons
  11. Griffos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: griffonage (page history and authors); griffonage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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