griffonagen.
/ɡrɪfɒˈnɑːʒ/ Scribble.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible
scribbling1536
scribble-scrabble1602
scrawling1612
scrawl1710
scrawls1728
hieroglyphic1742
scoteinography1779
scratch1785
pot-hookery1795
hen scrat1825
cryptogram1827
scribble1828
griffonage1832
hen-scratching1851
chicken scratches1863
hieroglyph1875
1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxxiv. 261 We hastened to pack up our ‘trumpery’,..and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage.
1834 M. Edgeworth Helen II. vii. 148 There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer.
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