griffinhood

English

Etymology

griffin +‎ -hood

Noun

griffinhood (uncountable)

1. (India, dated) The status or behaviour of a griffin, a person newly arrived from Europe.
   • 1897, The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 5, page 491:

     By this time I had mastered the rudiments of the language, and may be said to have emerged to a great extent from the period of griffinhood.