griffonage

• The manuscript passed into my possession, our Creole lady-correspondent reiterating to the end her inability to divine what could be wanted with "an almost illegible scrawl" (griffonage), full of bad spelling and of rather inelegant diction. —  Strange True Stories of Louisiana
• There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer. —  Tales and Novels — Volume 10
• This is a fine griffonage, to be sure! but I have not patience to write prettily; if you can only read it, it will do well enough. —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
• Excuse mon griffonage. —  Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
• But I must reserve a description of these trips until another letter, as I am sure you will be heartily tired by the time you have got through my _griffonage_. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir

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