kris

plural krises · plural krisses · alternative crease · alternative creese · alternative creeze · alternative crese · alternative cress · alternative cris · alternative crise · alternative criss · alternative crys · alternative cryse · alternative keris · alternative kreese · alternative kriss

1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.

   Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

   1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292

present singular third person kriss · present singular third person krisses · participle present krising · participle present krissing · participle past krised · past krised · participle past krissed · past krissed · alternative crease · alternative creese · alternative creeze · alternative crese · alternative cress · alternative cris · alternative crise · alternative criss

1. transitiveTo stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris.

   One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.

   2017, John D. Greenwood, Forbidden Hill, Monsoon Books, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   This was reported to the Rajah (to some of whose wives the girl was related), and he immediately sent to the Englishman's house ordering him to give the woman up as she must be "krissed." In vain he begged and prayed, and offered to pay any fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give her up unless he was forced to do so.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 271

   [...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.

   1901, George Manville Fenn, Running Amok: A Story of Adventure, page 100

alternative Chris

1. A diminutive of the female given names Kristina, Kristin, Kristine and related given names (Christina, etc).
2. A diminutive of the male given names Christopher, Christian, and related given names.

   Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who was tapped to help Vice President Mike Pence lead the panel, defended the commission in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” Monday.

   2017 May 15, David Wright, “Kobach: ‘Election integrity’ panel ‘not set up to prove or to disprove’ Trump”, in CNN

1. pluralplural of KRI