Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Malayan dagger with a wavy double-edged blade.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Another spelling of creese.
Wiktionary
- n. An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade.
- n. A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A Malay dagger. See creese.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
Etymologies
- From Malay keris. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580. (Wiktionary)
- Malay kris. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yes | No | Report from huntin kris wrote 13 weeks 2 days ago”
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“Thu 11/19/09 1: 55 PM nice interview! kris is such a good guy. i hope this album does really well.”
“I think that kris is going to choose Jr cause they both still love each other and matt is to big of a baby to win her over”
“Political, Video Of The Day, Hayden-Panettiere, John McCain kris”
“A collection of traditional Indonesian and Malay daggers, called kris, is in the bar; one of the blades measures 47 centimeters long.”
“They are symbolized to people's minds in general by the dagger called a kris, and by the peculiar form of frenzy which has given rise to the phrase "running amuck.”
“Next to his Koran the kris is the most sacred thing the Malay possesses.”
“The maker of the kris is a person of importance among the Malays, and ofttimes he is made by his grateful Rajah a Dato, or Lord, for his skill.”
“The kris is the Malay's national weapon that everyone wears.”
“Soon after they were passing great heavy-looking junks with their Celestial crews, or light Malay prahus with their swarthy, coffee-coloured sailors in tartan skirts, in whose folds at the waist the formidable wavy dagger known as a kris was worn, the handle, like the butt of a pistol in form, carefully covered by the silk or cotton sarong to indicate peace.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kris’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
Words that change meaning when capitalized
worms, welsh, turkey, time, tangier, tang, slough, seat, scotch, scone, said, russian and 70 more...
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logos's list
A poor pathetic thing, but mine own.
invidious, lugubriousness, vilify, noisome, synastry, front and center, declension, conjugation, regnal, diphthong, circumlocution, bishopric and 141 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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noble mythical words
halcyon, yore, chevalier, geas, dour, clarion, codex, selkie, mythic, rime, hoarfrost, eldritch and 112 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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girls names
girls names
miriam, mimi, miranda, sandra, sandy, kris, kristopher, cameron
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A History of Violence
rampart, riposte, kris, claymore, cleave, caponier, jujitsu, ninja, rapier, bayonet, shiv, ballistics and 16 more...
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Krst List
Krst words--etymology, historically, phonetically, etc.
I've mostly avoided people names (Christopher, etc), but Lampbane has a great list of them here.krst, christ, chi-rho, karast, kristos, cristos, crest, crust, cursed, khristós, crist, krista and 17 more...
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the armourer
Armour and weapons, and the occasional soldier.
gauntlet, vambrace, ballista, arbalest, trebuchet, sabre, epee, foil, flamberge, katana, dagger, switchblade and 80 more...
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Words Kristine hates
I gotta remember these.
moist, date, baste, *anything in betw..., fart, barf, puke, fingerbanging, kris, burp, loin, pregnant and 1 more...
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Is this a dagger I see before me?
Or a kris? A rapier? A double-bladed hackmonger?
interesting bladesdagger, sword, knife, snee, snickersnee, bayonet, blade, kris, bolo, katana, rapier, lance and 41 more...
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Chris Cross
"Anointed one" was the name given to Jesus Christ by Greek-speaking Christians, and since then similar names have been given to children who may not necessarily be Christians.
chris, christopher, christos, christian, christina, christine, cristina, cristine, chrissy, christy, kris, kristina and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kris.
bilby No ss in Malay, Indonesian or Javanese. Spelling keris is also acceptable. Sep 16, 2008
chained_bear I've heard of kris blades before, but never heard kris used on its own like this. Also thought it was spelled kriss.
"...man with a speckled orange-tawny turban and a kris tucked into his sarong..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 185 Mar 4, 2008