kriss

kriss (plural krisses)

1. Alternative form of kris (“dagger”)
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 269:

     As far back as 1803 Captain Flinders met the swarthy, sea-going Malajs, clad then, as they are now, in badju and sarong, wearing gracefully-folded turbans on their heads, and with murderous-looking krisses stuck in their girdles.

• IPA^(key): /kʀis/

kriss

1. second-person singular present indicative of kréien