crissy, adjective
/krɪsi/
- Forms:
- Also crizzy, krissy.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, EnglishShow more Englished form of Afrikaans kroes frizzy + English adjective-forming suffix -y.
kroes sense 1.
1980 C. Hope A Separate Development (1983) 56With your complexion, crissy hair and all, next to you even my kaffir girl’s good looking.
1990 M. Gevisser in Weekly Mail 8 Feb. 10She was the little girl, born of white parents in Piet Retief, who was forcibly removed from her school after the principal notified the police that her skin was turning dark and her hair was becoming ‘crizzy’.
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