2010-12-13

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2010-12-13 07:25 am

griffonage

griffonage (GRIF-uh-nij or grif-uh-NAHJ) - n., careless or illegible handwriting.


No mythical eagle-lion hybrids involved, alas, through given the claws would make holding a pen awkward, I would expect a griffin to produce griffonage. Instead, this is borrowed from French griffonnage, from the verb griffonner, to scribble or scrawl -- and as such is related at deep root to graffiti and a paragraph.

---L.