kris

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.

noun

1. A traditional Indonesian, Malay, 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

verb

1. (transitive) To stab with a kris.
   … 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
   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