Meaning of griffish | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a griff or griffin, a white person newly arrived in India from Europe.

India, dated

Examples

“I might have taken refuge in the adjoining apartments; but I felt unwilling to appear griffish, as it is called, before the family.”

“The first tiger I ever saw was under such circumstances, in my second year in India, with a friend as griffish to Indian sport as myself: we were two guns and a pad, his elephant wholly untried: […]”

CEFR level