graff
Alternative form of graft.
Noun biology, botany
- Alternative form of graft.
Origin
Older variant of graft, q.v.
Forms
Noun obsolete, uncountable
- A steward; an overseer.
Origin
From German Graf (“count”).
Noun abbreviation, alt of
- Clipping of graffiti.
Forms
Derived
Noun journalism, media
- Alternative form of graf (“paragraph”).
- Were I not hooked-up, and old enough to be her father, I'd be stalking Alyssa Rosenberg because of the following graff:[…] - 2008 September 19, Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Why is Hollywood ignoring She-Hulk?”, in The Atlantic:
Forms
Verb biology, botany
- Alternative form of graft.
- Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or...
- For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold. - 1823, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso,...
Forms
Verb abbreviation, alt of
- Clipping of graffiti
- Just two days ago, I had graffed a piece with my crew and went to Sunrise High School. - 2011 March 18, Mary A. Monroe, “The Long Drive”, in Tagger: Graffiti Was His Life – and Soul, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse,...
- There’s nothing like heat in this light. There’s only what I’m graffing—the swirls and orbs and flecks and tags, the pictures I’m making for Stefan. - 2014, Beth Kephart, “SO36”, in Going Over, San Francisco, Calif.:...
- Whilst living in Squatopolis, I remember returning home with a bag of sweaty skip, and finding him graffing a huge piece on to one wall: the squat logo being smashed with a fist surrounded by the words “Better Let Homes...
Synonyms: graff up