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From griffin + -hood.
griffinhood (uncountable)
- (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.
