griff

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪf/

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• Homophone: griffe
• Rhymes: -ɪf

Shortened from earlier griffin.

griff (plural griffs)

1. (India) griffin, (white) newcomer

Compare grip, gripe.

griff (plural griffs)

1. (obsolete) grasp; reach
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     A vaine of gold ore within one spades griffe in the first turfe of the ground

2. (weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Griff”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

• grefa, griefo, griefs, grifa, griffa, griffo

griff (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, slang) marijuana.

• green griff
• griff house

griff

1. first/third-person singular preterite of greifen

From German Gryph, from Latin gryphus, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrifː]
• Hyphenation: griff
• Rhymes: -ifː

griff (plural griffek)

1. griffin (a mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle)

   Synonym: griffmadár

• (griffin [bird]): griff in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (grip, handle; sense, skill): griff in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.