criss (plural crisses)

1. Alternative form of kris (“dagger”).

• IPA^(key): /kʁis/

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From Malay keris.

criss m (invariable)

1. kris (dagger)

• kriss

criss m (invariable)

1. (Quebec) alternative form of crisse

criss

1. alternative form of cress
   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:

     Criss Colfere,

     Cross Colfer.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 126