griffinhood

English

Etymology

griffin +‎ -hood

Noun

griffinhood (uncountable)

  1. (India, dated) The status or behaviour of a griffin, a person newly arrived from Europe.
    • 1897, The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 5, page 491:
      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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