criss
English edit
Noun edit
criss (plural crisses)
- Alternative form of kris (“dagger”)
Yola edit
Noun edit
criss
- Alternative form of cress
- 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:
- Criss Colfere,
- Cross Colfer.
References edit
- 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