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▪ I. criss|krɪs|
[Variant form of w. midl. dial. cress = crease n.2 (sense 3).]
The curved top of the stand on which tiles are made.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 87 Brick, Tile-Maker, Burner, Dealer, Criss Maker. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §474 Criss maker (tile making); a carpenter who makes criss.
▪ II. criss, a. orig. and chiefly Jamaican.
Brit. |krɪs|, U.S. |krɪs|
Forms: 19– cris, 19– cris', 19– criss, 19– kris, 19– kriss
[Variant of crisp adj.]
1. Stiff; not pliable.
1952in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. LePage Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 266/1 Wild-yam not good to tie bundles of wood /it tuu kris/.
2. slang. Attractive; fashionable, smart; (more generally) good, nice.
In quot. 1954 perh.: self-consciously attractive, proud.
1954in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. LePage Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 266/1 Walk lakka cris Miss. 1988Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 3 Nov. 18/3 It is fast becoming very fashionable and looking ‘real criss’, as one teenager puts it. 1992V. Headley Yardie (1993) 58 Imagine, a youth see a man who have a criss car, jewellery, and nice clothes and him know seh is not work and education the man get it t'rough. 1993V. Headley Excess v. 31 The special sounded criss too. Firefly's potent high-pitched voice carried the lyrics on the gliding bass line. 1999C. Newland Society Within (2000) 11, I had a cris' pair ah Versace jeans dat got bun up. I'm screwin' about dat, believe. 2000D. Adebayo My Once upon a Time (2001) iv. 73 ‘So what do you reckon to my girl?’ I asked... ‘She kris, no question.’ |