Griffinhood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The status or behaviour of a griffin, a person newly arrived from Europe. India, dated, uncountable

    "By this time I had mastered the rudiments of the language, and may be said to have emerged to a great extent from the period of griffinhood."

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"By this time I had mastered the rudiments of the language, and may be said to have emerged to a great extent from the period of griffinhood."

Etymology

From griffin + -hood.

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