Definition of "grif"
grif
/ɡɹɪf/
noun
plural grifs
(dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”)
Quotations
[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.
2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, page 50