grif
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
/ɡɹɪf/
Definition of grif
1 sense · 1 part of speech
noun
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(alt-of, alternative, dated, historical)Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).
“His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.”
“[…] in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.”
“Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.”
“[This] author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.”
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