griffonner

C'est une feuille sur laquelle il griffonnait.
This is a piece of paper he was scribbling on.
C'est comme si... on griffonnait sur la Joconde.
That'd be like scribbling on the Mona Lisa.
Puis je le vis qui griffonnait quelque chose sur un bout de papier, et je me doutais qu’il m’écrivait un mot.
Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, and I knew that he was writing me a note.
Selon Margery Durant, qui a publié en 1929 un livre de souvenir intitulé My Father, Durant griffonnait parfois des logos sur les nappes en papier des restaurants où il dinait.
According to Margery Durant, in her 1929 book My Father, Durant sometimes doodled nameplate designs on pieces of paper at the dinner table.
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