griffinagen.
/ˈɡrɪfɪnɪdʒ/ Anglo-Indian.
The state of being a ‘griffin’; one's first year in India.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [noun] > state of
inexperiencedness1725
griffinage1829
greenhornism1831
uninitiation1834
neophytism1845
griffinhood1854
1829 H. B. Henderson Bengalee 122 Subscription pack, Champagne tiffin parties, and other first claims on the griffinage of a civilian.
1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands II. vi. 197 A large detachment of recruits, who, like myself, all in their griffinage, had but lately landed at Madras.
1878 G. P. Sanderson Thirteen Years among Wild Beasts of India xxii. 214 In the days of our griffinage.
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