单词 | criss |
释义 | crissn. The curved top of the stand on which tiles are made. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tile-making equipment > [noun] tile-machine1844 thwacker1867 thwacking-frame1867 criss?1881 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 87 Brick, Tile-Maker, Burner, Dealer, Criss Maker. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §474 Criss maker (tile making); a carpenter who makes criss. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). crissadj. Originally and chiefly Jamaican. 1. Stiff; not pliable. ΚΠ 1952 in 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 perhaps: self-consciously attractive, proud. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart gallantc1420 galliard1513 fine1526 trickly1580 pink1598 genteel1601 sparkful1605 sparkish1657 jaunty1662 spankinga1666 shanty1685 trig1725 smartish1738 distinguished1748 nobby1788 dashing1801 vaudy1805 swell1810 distingué1813 dashy1822 nutty1823 chic1832 slicked1836 flash1838 rakish1840 spiffy1853 smart1860 sassy1861 classy1870 spiffing1872 toffish1873 tony1877 swish1879 hep1899 toffy1901 hip1904 toppy1905 in1906 floozy1911 swank1913 jazz1917 ritzy1919 smooth1920 snappy1925 snazzy1931 groovy1937 what ho1937 gussy1940 criss1954 high camp1954 sprauncy1957 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 schmick1972 designer1978 atas1993 as fine as fivepence- 1954 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. LePage Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 266/1 Walk lakka cris Miss. 1988 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 3 Nov. 18/3 It is fast becoming very fashionable and looking ‘real criss’, as one teenager puts it. 1992 V. 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. 1993 V. Headley Excess v. 31 The special sounded criss too. Firefly's potent high-pitched voice carried the lyrics on the gliding bass line. 1999 C. Newland Society Within (2000) 11 I had a cris' pair ah Versace jeans dat got bun up. I'm screwin' about dat, believe. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) iv. 73 ‘So what do you reckon to my girl?’ I asked... ‘She kris, no question.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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