griffishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

griffish (comparative more griffish, superlative most griffish)

1. (India, dated) Resembling or characteristic of a griff or griffin, a white person newly arrived in India from Europe.
   • 1835, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register (page 124)

     I might have taken refuge in the adjoining apartments; but I felt unwilling to appear griffish, as it is called, before the family.

   • 1854, Henry Whitelock Torrens, ‎James Hume, A selection from the writings, prose and poetical, of Henry W. Torrens (page 187)

     The first tiger I ever saw was under such circumstances, in my second year in India, with a friend as griffish to Indian sport as myself: we were two guns and a pad, his elephant wholly untried: […]