griff

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪf/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: griffe
• Rhymes: -ɪf

Shortened from earlier griffin.

griff (plural griffs)

1. (informal) Clipping of griffin.

   Alternative form: gryph

   • 1997 October 22, Ratty, “How to handle against human submarines?”, in alt.games.warcraft‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     problem with griffs is that they r tooo weak to take a town by itself, cuz they take forever and by the time they r finished with a building, the enm has already got together some defense and is ready to kick the griffs a**....

   • 1999 June 22, Riprock, “Griffins confuse me”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     Diff griffs con differently. Next time one flies righ^[sic] over you, /con it to see how it sees you. Some con "ready to attack" to me and some /con "Indifferently" and anywhere in between.

   • 1999 July 8, Kevin McGuire, “Anyone Play Magic and mayhem...anyone??”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     Lure will get the mage some breathing room, so it isn't an absolute kill (and Stone Gaze can really hurt the griffs), but it sure is fun.

2. (India) griffin, (white) newcomer

Compare grip, gripe.

griff (plural griffs)

1. (obsolete) grasp; reach
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     A vaine of gold ore within one spades griffe in the first turfe of the ground

2. (weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Griff”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

• grefa, griefo, griefs, grifa, griffa, griffo

griff (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, slang) marijuana.

• green griff
• griff house

griff

1. (mythology) alternative form of grif

griff

1. first/third-person singular preterite of greifen

From German Gryph, from Latin gryphus, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrifː]
• Hyphenation: griff
• Rhymes: -ifː

griff (plural griffek)

1. griffin (a mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle)

   Synonym: griffmadár

• (griffin [bird]): griff in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (grip, handle; sense, skill): griff in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Derived from Danish grif, from Old Danish gryph, ultimately from Latin grȳphus and Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). Doublet of gribb.

Compare Old Norse gripr, Old Swedish griper, Swedish grip.

griff

1. (mythology) a griffin