crissy, adjective

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.
1984 Darling 24 Oct. 90I cut my hair short so that it can be easier to manage but it still looks a mess...It goes ‘krissy’ in cold or hot weather.
1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 313Do you really want babies with dark skins and krissy hair?
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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