gryph

English

Alternative forms

• griff

Noun

gryph (plural gryphs)

1. (informal) Clipping of gryphon.
   • 1997 February 4, Rayn, “gryphons or dragons?”, in alt.games.warcraft‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     ps. I'd rather gryphs than drags. healing is the best when you consider these guys cost a bit much.

   • 1998 November 1, Polenth, chapter IDIC, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals.gryphons‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     I prefer the modern diversity, though that includes lion/eagle gryphs, just not them in isolation. I like diversity. As a vaguely related note, perhaps all gryphs were lion/eagle ones once, but they evolved to look different depending on where they lived.

   • 1998 June 26, Gryphon65, “um, hi. i'm back & i think i'm in one piece.”, in alt.fan.dragons‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     So these gryphs no doubt learned to become quite enraged whenever they saw or heard signs of horses. […] As for hippogryphs, again, I don't see why sentient beings couldn't get along. The idea of a hippogryph in the first place was the existance^[sic] of an impossibility. They are still chimeric, very-similar-to-gryphs creatures.

Related terms

• hippogryph