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crisscross

Today it means: To move back and forth over or through. Full definition →

Middle English crist-crosse

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Middle English · inherited fromcrist-crosse
English todaycrisscross

From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.