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▪ I. griff, n.1 north. dial.|grɪf|
Also grif.
[Origin obscure.]
A deep narrow valley or chasm. ? Cf. grift n.1
1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 333 Griff, a deep valley, with a rocky fissure-like chasm at the bottom. 1882Good Cheer 33 The broken receding angles at the foot of the Grif. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 344 One of the small tributary becks..comes into the open air again in a wild little griff.
▪ II. griff, n.2 Anglo-Indian.|grɪf|
[app. a shortening of the earlier griffin, q.v.]
= griffin2.
1829Bengalee 260 Whilst a call Of ‘Griff! ho Griff!’ re⁓echoed like the yell Of foul tormentors, in some modern hell. 1860All Year Round No. 55. 117 What an unsophisticated griff you must be! 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. xxx. (1887) 225 There had been joking with a lot of ‘griffs’, young recruits just out from England.
Comb.1853W. D. Arnold Oakfield I. iii. 38 Cadets..going up to that great griff depot, Oudapoor.
▪ III. griff, n.3 rare.|grɪf|
Also in Fr. form griffe.
[a. F. griffe.]
A claw.
1820Shelley Sensitive Pl. iii. 113 A Northern whirlwind, wandering about Like a wolf..Shook the boughs thus laden, and heavy, and stiff, And snapped them off with his rigid griff. 1848Lytton Harold vii. iv, My disgrace at being so clawed and mauled by its griffes. 1865Ouida Strathmore I. xii. 195 The pretty panther, how handsome she looks! She has merciless griffes, though.
▪ IV. griff, n.4 Louisiana.|grɪf|
Also griffe, griffo(n, griffin.
[Of obscure origin: Buffon (quoted by Littré) gives the word as griffe.]
A type of mulatto (see quots.).
1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 67 The auctioneer began to describe him as a fine griff (which means three parts black), twenty-four years old, and having many superior qualities. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Griffin, griffe, this word, like the French griffone, is constantly used in Louisiana, both in conversation and in print, for a mulatto, particularly the woman. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Griff, same as Griffo. Griffo, the produce of a negro and a mulatto, containing one fourth white blood, and three fourths black. Griffon, same as Griffo.
▪ V. griff, n.5 Weaving.|grɪf|
[Origin unknown.]
A frame composed of horizontal bars employed in pattern-weaving. Also griff-frame.
1860Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 1005 A mechanical arrangement connected with the treddle, which raises or depresses the griff frame. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Griff.
▪ VI. griff, n.6 slang.|grɪf|
[Shortened form of griffin4.]
A tip; news; reliable information.
1891N. Gould Double Event (1892) iv. 22 ‘He's a Newmarketer, he is. Not up here for nothing, you bet. He's got the straight griff for something.’.. Ike had the ‘straightest griff’ he ever had in his life, and that was to mount Iberia for Sydney. 1945Finito! Po Valley Campaign 30 The officer who broke off a stern argument..to inquire..the latest ‘griff’ from a passing Tommy. 1948A. Baron From City, from Plough vi. 49 ‘Is that the griff, Higgsy?’.. ‘Have I ever given you a wrong tip?’ 1961Wodehouse Service with Smile v. 75 You can't come telling a man to go pinching pigs without giving him the griff about why he's doing it and who for. 1967M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink xvii. 119 Somebody in the centre of things had ‘given the griff’ whenever there had been any to give. 1968Listener 8 Feb. 167/1 He was to give us the approved line, the authorised version, the holy griff on what we were actually up to in Suez. 1968J. Wainwright Edge of Extinction 104 The informant was saying: ‘It's griff, guv. The real thing.’
▪ VII. griff, v. Anglo-Indian.|grɪf|
[f. griff n.2]
1829Bengalee 263 He deem'd no sin To griff a heedless friend,—plain English,—take him in.
▪ VIII. griff
obs. form of graff n.1, grief. |