criss-crossn.

Brit.

/ˈkrɪskrɒs/,

/ˈkrɪskrɔːs/, U.S.

/ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/,

/ˈkrɪsˌkrɑs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: criss-cross v.

Etymology: < criss-cross v. Compare earlier criss-cross adv., criss-cross adj., and also earlier Christ-cross n., with which this word shows considerable formal overlap.Senses relating to a single figure or mark of a cross are covered at Christ-cross n.

a. A network or pattern of intersecting lines. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network > network of intersecting lines

criss-cross1824

1824 London Mag. Oct. 351/2 London will shortly be nothing but a criss-cross of high-roads.

1833 Southern Recorder 9 Oct. A gown of dark blue with a little white sprig, apron of criss-cross, (house-maids were not above checked aprons in those days,) and black cotton stockings.

1881 C. De Kay Vision of Nimrod x. 179 The country gleaming With silvery crisscross of canals.

1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands i. 8 An irregular line of low hills..forms a confused crisscross over the entire breadth of the Campos.

1994 T. Zeldin Intimate Hist. Humanity (1998) xxii. 393 The unexpected result of new technologies of communication is that it is possible to conceive a criss-cross of networks of people..who care for each other, no longer just in the neighbouring city, but anywhere in the world.

2018 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 June Wrap the yarn around the balloon in criss crosses and zig zags until the balloon is almost entirely covered.

b. A transverse crossing; a crossing motion.

ΚΠ

1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land I. i. 2 When the current, setting to the north-west, meets a strong sea-breeze from the west, there is a criss-cross, a tide-rip.

1921 W. P. Ridge Bannerton's Agency i. 4 She was in no way deterred by the criss-cross of traffic, and raced over to St John's Street.

2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 July 3 Views over North Harbour take in the criss-cross of ferries, yachts moored off the beach and, at night, the lights of St Patrick's College.

†c. figurative. A muddle or misunderstanding; the state of being at cross-purposes. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [noun]

mistakinga1400

misconceivinga1425

misunderstandingc1443

misweening1493

misknowledgea1500

misconstructiona1535

misconstruinga1535

misinterpreting1563

misinterpretation1576

mispersuasion1593

misconceit1596

a mistake of1614

misconcept1616

misinference1627

misinferring1627

misapprehension1629

misconception1658

misrendering1661

misapprehending1702

misperception1722

misintelligence1779

misthinking1788

misreading1832

miscomprehension1843

criss-cross1877

misconstrual1950

1877 Manufacturer & Miner (Brazil, Indiana) 20 July A most unpleasant criss-cross of cable statements, which, if it is not speedly [sic] unraveled, threatens to make of none effect the entente cordiale.

1907 Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 3/1 The practice of one manufacturing country assisting another with the sinews of war was described by Mr. Zangwill as ‘a topsy turvy criss-cross, and Gilbertian’.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 2/3 The absurd criss-cross of the authorities who look after us at playtime.

2. Chiefly U.S. Any of various games played on a grid or board, similar to fox and geese (fox and geese n. at fox n. Compounds 2d), noughts and crosses (noughts and crosses n.), or tic-tac-toe (tick-tack-toe n. b). Now rare.

ΚΠ

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Criss-cross, a game played on slates by children, at school.

1883 Sat. Rev. 21 July 74/2 Nature..teaches children to gossip, to sketch on their slates,..to play the exciting game of criss-cross.

1897 D. W. Anderson Oliver & Friends iii. 46 Do you know how to play criss-cross, Oliver?

1929 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. II. 987/1 The game of criss-cross is played in the nine spaces between two pairs of parallel lines crossing one another.

1961 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 26 Jan. 10/3 ‘Criss-Cross’ is a game two, three or four may play... A piece 10 inches square will do for a game board.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

criss-crossv.

Brit.

/ˈkrɪskrɒs/,

/ˈkrɪskrɔːs/, U.S.

/ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/,

/ˈkrɪsˌkrɑs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: criss-cross adj.; criss-cross adv.

Etymology: < either criss-cross adj. or criss-cross adv. Compare earlier cross v. and slightly later criss-cross n.Compare the following earlier (apparently isolated) example, which shows a different formation in the sense ‘to sprinkle (drops of water) on a person's face in baptism’ < Christ-cross n. (compare forms and sense 1 at that entry):1655 S. Fisher Christianismus Redivivus 250 You had need baptize your believing infants indeed, i. e. to do more then cris crosse two or three drops of water on their faces, or else..theyl be damnd.

1. transitive. To mark or pattern (something) with crossing lines; to cross repeatedly. Also figurative and in extended use.In quot. 1818: to write across (the written lines of a letter) at right angles.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (transitive)] > a line > mark or trace with crossing lines

criss-cross1818

gridiron1832

1818 J. Keats Let. 14 Mar. (1958) I. 246 I wish I had a little innocent bit of Metaphysic in my head, to criss-cross this letter.

1871 J. S. Le Fanu Tenants of Malory lxvii. 391 A pretty portrait..criss-crossed over with little cracks.

1883 Harper's Mag. May 826/2 The passing vessels criss-cross the white lines of their wakes upon it like pencil-marks on the slate.

1948 P. J. Hurley Red Cedar 211 Everywhere the bush and scrub was criss-crossed by cedar-tracks.

1988 Canad. Geographic Feb. 72/3 He has criss-crossed the country to photograph them [sc. ghost towns], hiking, canoeing, driving, even riding the rails, he says, to reach them.

2019 N.Y. Mag. (Nexis) 18 Mar. I like the Bottega design, I like the way they criss-cross the leather.

2. intransitive. To intersect or cross one another repeatedly. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (intransitive)] > cross each other

traverse1669

cross1695

intercross1711

criss-cross1883

1883 N. D. Urner in Boston Daily Globe 8 Nov. I sing the song of the flatiron... Of folds that criss-cross I'm the flat-footed boss.

1912 S. R. Crockett Moss Troopers i. 5 Myriads of purple splashes, none of which were distinct or ever for a second stood still, criss-crossing and melting one into the other, all equally a-dither with excitement.

1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. i. §66 The various resemblances between members of a family..overlap and criss-cross in the same way.

2019 Trail (Brit. Columbia) Daily Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. Over two dozen trails meander, switchback and criss-cross through the Valemount Bike Park.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

criss-crossadv.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkrɪskrɒs/,

/ˈkrɪskrɔːs/, U.S.

/ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/,

/ˈkrɪsˌkrɑs/

Forms: 1600s cris-cros, 1600s cris-crosse, 1600s crisse-crosse, 1800s– criss-cross.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Christ-cross n.

Etymology: Originally < Christ-cross n. (compare β. forms at that entry). In later use reapprehended as reduplication (with vowel variation) of cross adv.; compare later criss-cross n., criss-cross v.

A. adv.

†1. In a contrary or erroneous way; awry, askew. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xvi. 123 How they pronounce other words, who are so barbarous in this which is so common, and how they vse them crisse-crosse and kim kam.

2. In the manner of crossing lines; so as to resemble crossing lines; crosswise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [adverb]

overthwartc1300

thwarta1350

thwart-over1398

overthwartly?a1425

traversec1425

thorter1488

thwartly?1541

traversely?1541

traversewise1548

cross1577

thwartingly1579

crosswise1580

thwartwise1589

overthwartwise1594

crossly1598

traverseways1610

athwart1611

crossway1611

transversely1650

overthwartways1656

transverse1660

crossways1665

thwartways1665

transversally1762

criss-cross1843

athwart-wise1868

1843 Athenæum 26 Aug. 768/2 The two pipes laid criss-cross inside the lozenge-pane.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 18 The rigging, which ran criss-cross and slopeways.

1936 D. Lucas & R. Hume Au Petit Cordon Bleu 153 Cover the top criss-cross with thin strips of paste.

2006 H. Garner Joe Cinque's Consol. (e-book ed.) She was wearing..a dark-blue jacket laced criss-cross in the small of her back.

B. adj.

Arranged or placed in crossing lines; crossing, crossed; marked by crossings or intersections; having a pattern of crossed lines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > crossing or crossed over each other

acrossed1550

cross1602

incrossed1606

criss-cross1614

diallel1658

crossed1834

intercrossing1859

1614 T. Freeman Rubbe & Great Cast ii. sig. G3 This furrow'd face so full of Cris-crosse rowes, Was once (quoth she) such as you see it there.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. iii. 84 Ye trace to and fro till ye tire your selves in the perplexing Cris-Cros Track, and endlesse Round of your own meer Thoughts about a thing.

1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. vii. 132 His puckered forehead unravels its entanglement of criss-cross wrinkles.

1879 C. R. Conder Tent Work Palestine 352 A regular criss-cross pattern, never seen in the later masonry.

1943 Triumphs of Engin. 99/2 The great maze of criss-cross latticing seen when crossing the bridge.

2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 20 Mar. 25 A pagoda-like construction of criss-cross beams in a beautiful, but incongruous blue.

Phrases

U.S. criss-cross applesauce: in a cross-legged position; sitting cross-legged.Chiefly used by or with reference to children. [Reflecting earlier use of criss-cross applesauce in various children's songs, rhymes, etc. (compare quot. 1936), in which words are chosen primarily for reasons of rhyme rather than sense.]

ΚΠ

1936 A. R. Wright & R. Jones Children of Nineties 63 He did not tell anybody of his plan but Louisa and he made her promise not to tell. ‘Criss Cross, Apple Sauce, hope to die and spit’ she swore.]

1987 Corvallis (Oregon) Gaz.-Times 11 July b1/1 The children in her groups have to follow..rules: Sit in a circle on the floor (‘crisscross, applesauce’, as the kids say), listen and not talk when somebody else is speaking.

2019 Newberry (S. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 3 Aug. They brought all of us to the gymnasium. I sat on the floor criss-cross applesauce and watched the small black and white TV of the launch.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.1824

v.1818

adv.adj.1607

单词	criss-cross
释义	criss-crossn. Brit. /ˈkrɪskrɒs/, /ˈkrɪskrɔːs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/, /ˈkrɪsˌkrɑs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: criss-cross v. Etymology: < criss-cross v. Compare earlier criss-cross adv., criss-cross adj., and also earlier Christ-cross n., with which this word shows considerable formal overlap.Senses relating to a single figure or mark of a cross are covered at Christ-cross n. 1. a. A network or pattern of intersecting lines. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > structure resembling network > network of intersecting lines criss-cross1824 1824 London Mag. Oct. 351/2 London will shortly be nothing but a criss-cross of high-roads. 1833 Southern Recorder 9 Oct. A gown of dark blue with a little white sprig, apron of criss-cross, (house-maids were not above checked aprons in those days,) and black cotton stockings. 1881 C. De Kay Vision of Nimrod x. 179 The country gleaming With silvery crisscross of canals. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands i. 8 An irregular line of low hills..forms a confused crisscross over the entire breadth of the Campos. 1994 T. Zeldin Intimate Hist. Humanity (1998) xxii. 393 The unexpected result of new technologies of communication is that it is possible to conceive a criss-cross of networks of people..who care for each other, no longer just in the neighbouring city, but anywhere in the world. 2018 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 June Wrap the yarn around the balloon in criss crosses and zig zags until the balloon is almost entirely covered. b. A transverse crossing; a crossing motion. ΚΠ 1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land I. i. 2 When the current, setting to the north-west, meets a strong sea-breeze from the west, there is a criss-cross, a tide-rip. 1921 W. P. Ridge Bannerton's Agency i. 4 She was in no way deterred by the criss-cross of traffic, and raced over to St John's Street. 2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 July 3 Views over North Harbour take in the criss-cross of ferries, yachts moored off the beach and, at night, the lights of St Patrick's College. †c. figurative. A muddle or misunderstanding; the state of being at cross-purposes. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [noun] mistakinga1400 misconceivinga1425 misunderstandingc1443 misweening1493 misknowledgea1500 misconstructiona1535 misconstruinga1535 misinterpreting1563 misinterpretation1576 mispersuasion1593 misconceit1596 a mistake of1614 misconcept1616 misinference1627 misinferring1627 misapprehension1629 misconception1658 misrendering1661 misapprehending1702 misperception1722 misintelligence1779 misthinking1788 misreading1832 miscomprehension1843 criss-cross1877 misconstrual1950 1877 Manufacturer & Miner (Brazil, Indiana) 20 July A most unpleasant criss-cross of cable statements, which, if it is not speedly [sic] unraveled, threatens to make of none effect the entente cordiale. 1907 Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 3/1 The practice of one manufacturing country assisting another with the sinews of war was described by Mr. Zangwill as ‘a topsy turvy criss-cross, and Gilbertian’. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 2/3 The absurd criss-cross of the authorities who look after us at playtime. 2. Chiefly U.S. Any of various games played on a grid or board, similar to fox and geese (fox and geese n. at fox n. Compounds 2d), noughts and crosses (noughts and crosses n.), or tic-tac-toe (tick-tack-toe n. b). Now rare. ΚΠ 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Criss-cross, a game played on slates by children, at school. 1883 Sat. Rev. 21 July 74/2 Nature..teaches children to gossip, to sketch on their slates,..to play the exciting game of criss-cross. 1897 D. W. Anderson Oliver & Friends iii. 46 Do you know how to play criss-cross, Oliver? 1929 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. II. 987/1 The game of criss-cross is played in the nine spaces between two pairs of parallel lines crossing one another. 1961 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 26 Jan. 10/3 ‘Criss-Cross’ is a game two, three or four may play... A piece 10 inches square will do for a game board. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). criss-crossv. Brit. /ˈkrɪskrɒs/, /ˈkrɪskrɔːs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/, /ˈkrɪsˌkrɑs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: criss-cross adj.; criss-cross adv. Etymology: < either criss-cross adj. or criss-cross adv. Compare earlier cross v. and slightly later criss-cross n.Compare the following earlier (apparently isolated) example, which shows a different formation in the sense ‘to sprinkle (drops of water) on a person's face in baptism’ < Christ-cross n. (compare forms and sense 1 at that entry):1655 S. Fisher Christianismus Redivivus 250 You had need baptize your believing infants indeed, i. e. to do more then cris crosse two or three drops of water on their faces, or else..theyl be damnd. 1. transitive. To mark or pattern (something) with crossing lines; to cross repeatedly. Also figurative and in extended use.In quot. 1818: to write across (the written lines of a letter) at right angles. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (transitive)] > a line > mark or trace with crossing lines criss-cross1818 gridiron1832 1818 J. Keats Let. 14 Mar. (1958) I. 246 I wish I had a little innocent bit of Metaphysic in my head, to criss-cross this letter. 1871 J. S. Le Fanu Tenants of Malory lxvii. 391 A pretty portrait..criss-crossed over with little cracks. 1883 Harper's Mag. May 826/2 The passing vessels criss-cross the white lines of their wakes upon it like pencil-marks on the slate. 1948 P. J. Hurley Red Cedar 211 Everywhere the bush and scrub was criss-crossed by cedar-tracks. 1988 Canad. Geographic Feb. 72/3 He has criss-crossed the country to photograph them [sc. ghost towns], hiking, canoeing, driving, even riding the rails, he says, to reach them. 2019 N.Y. Mag. (Nexis) 18 Mar. I like the Bottega design, I like the way they criss-cross the leather. 2. intransitive. To intersect or cross one another repeatedly. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (intransitive)] > cross each other traverse1669 cross1695 intercross1711 criss-cross1883 1883 N. D. Urner in Boston Daily Globe 8 Nov. I sing the song of the flatiron... Of folds that criss-cross I'm the flat-footed boss. 1912 S. R. Crockett Moss Troopers i. 5 Myriads of purple splashes, none of which were distinct or ever for a second stood still, criss-crossing and melting one into the other, all equally a-dither with excitement. 1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. i. §66 The various resemblances between members of a family..overlap and criss-cross in the same way. 2019 Trail (Brit. Columbia) Daily Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. Over two dozen trails meander, switchback and criss-cross through the Valemount Bike Park. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). criss-crossadv.adj. Brit. /ˈkrɪskrɒs/, /ˈkrɪskrɔːs/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/, /ˈkrɪsˌkrɑs/ Forms: 1600s cris-cros, 1600s cris-crosse, 1600s crisse-crosse, 1800s– criss-cross. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Christ-cross n. Etymology: Originally < Christ-cross n. (compare β. forms at that entry). In later use reapprehended as reduplication (with vowel variation) of cross adv.; compare later criss-cross n., criss-cross v. A. adv. †1. In a contrary or erroneous way; awry, askew. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xvi. 123 How they pronounce other words, who are so barbarous in this which is so common, and how they vse them crisse-crosse and kim kam. 2. In the manner of crossing lines; so as to resemble crossing lines; crosswise. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [adverb] overthwartc1300 thwarta1350 thwart-over1398 overthwartly?a1425 traversec1425 thorter1488 thwartly?1541 traversely?1541 traversewise1548 cross1577 thwartingly1579 crosswise1580 thwartwise1589 overthwartwise1594 crossly1598 traverseways1610 athwart1611 crossway1611 transversely1650 overthwartways1656 transverse1660 crossways1665 thwartways1665 transversally1762 criss-cross1843 athwart-wise1868 1843 Athenæum 26 Aug. 768/2 The two pipes laid criss-cross inside the lozenge-pane. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 18 The rigging, which ran criss-cross and slopeways. 1936 D. Lucas & R. Hume Au Petit Cordon Bleu 153 Cover the top criss-cross with thin strips of paste. 2006 H. Garner Joe Cinque's Consol. (e-book ed.) She was wearing..a dark-blue jacket laced criss-cross in the small of her back. B. adj. Arranged or placed in crossing lines; crossing, crossed; marked by crossings or intersections; having a pattern of crossed lines. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > crossing or crossed over each other acrossed1550 cross1602 incrossed1606 criss-cross1614 diallel1658 crossed1834 intercrossing1859 1614 T. Freeman Rubbe & Great Cast ii. sig. G3 This furrow'd face so full of Cris-crosse rowes, Was once (quoth she) such as you see it there. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. iii. 84 Ye trace to and fro till ye tire your selves in the perplexing Cris-Cros Track, and endlesse Round of your own meer Thoughts about a thing. 1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. vii. 132 His puckered forehead unravels its entanglement of criss-cross wrinkles. 1879 C. R. Conder Tent Work Palestine 352 A regular criss-cross pattern, never seen in the later masonry. 1943 Triumphs of Engin. 99/2 The great maze of criss-cross latticing seen when crossing the bridge. 2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 20 Mar. 25 A pagoda-like construction of criss-cross beams in a beautiful, but incongruous blue. Phrases U.S. criss-cross applesauce: in a cross-legged position; sitting cross-legged.Chiefly used by or with reference to children. [Reflecting earlier use of criss-cross applesauce in various children's songs, rhymes, etc. (compare quot. 1936), in which words are chosen primarily for reasons of rhyme rather than sense.] ΚΠ 1936 A. R. Wright & R. Jones Children of Nineties 63 He did not tell anybody of his plan but Louisa and he made her promise not to tell. ‘Criss Cross, Apple Sauce, hope to die and spit’ she swore.] 1987 Corvallis (Oregon) Gaz.-Times 11 July b1/1 The children in her groups have to follow..rules: Sit in a circle on the floor (‘crisscross, applesauce’, as the kids say), listen and not talk when somebody else is speaking. 2019 Newberry (S. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 3 Aug. They brought all of us to the gymnasium. I sat on the floor criss-cross applesauce and watched the small black and white TV of the launch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824v.1818adv.adj.1607
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