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单词 criss
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crissn.

/krɪs/
Etymology: Variant form of west midland dialect cress = crease n.2 (sense 3).
The curved top of the stand on which tiles are made.
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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.

Brit. /krɪs/, U.S. /krɪs/, Caribbean English /krɪs/
Forms: 1900s– cris, 1900s– cris', 1900s– criss, 1900s– kris, 1900s– kriss.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: crisp adj.
Etymology: Variant of crisp adj.
Originally and chiefly Jamaican.
1. Stiff; not pliable.
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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.
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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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