griffinhoodAnglo-Indian.|ˈgrɪfɪnhʊd| [f. griffin2 + -hood.] = griffinage. 1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 135, I was not quite released from the swaddling bands of my griffin-hood.1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 146 It is the ordinary early phase of griffinhood.