scissor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
skating
sports
Etymology: From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Inflected forms:
form: scissors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scissors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scissoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scissored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scissored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scissors
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: One blade on a pair of scissors.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: Scissors.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] let me know,
Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him
My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust
To such a Favorites glasse […]
1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267,
[The poem] “All for Love” […] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do […]
Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.
[…] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin.
They clipped the beads from her arms and scissored inches from her hair.
Network Rail, which had been able to secure funding from a multitude of 'patient capital' players across the world, was brought to heel, its credit card scissored.
gloss: To excise or expunge something from a text.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.
At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […]
gloss: To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256,
The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”
1881, advertisement for Pattison’s Missouri Digest, 1873, published in The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 3, Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing,
This Digest is the result of a careful reading of every case, and not a mere scissoring of head notes, as is so often done by digesters.
gloss: To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The runner scissored over the hurdles.
1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950,
She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes.
[…] I stand on tiptoe, lift a shade and see a pair of nyloned legs scissoring through a cold, wet, metropolitan afternoon.
She’s got her arms locked around his belly and her legs scissored around his shins […]
gloss: To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
pos: verb
Derived words: scissorbill
scissor binoculars
scissor bite
scissor congruence
scissor-congruent
scissor cross
scissor door
scissored
scissor kick
scissor lift
scissorlike
scissor sister
scissor statement
scissor switch
scissor tackle
scissor-tailed flycatcher
scissor tooth
scissorwise
unscissored
Translations:
lang: Biatah Bidayuh
word: gutin
lang: Bulgarian
word: режа с ножица
roman: reža s nožica
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 剪
roman: jiǎn
lang: Dutch
word: knippen
lang: Finnish
word: saksia
lang: Finnish
word: leikata saksilla
lang: French
word: couper aux ciseaux
lang: Galician
word: trosquiar
lang: Greek
word: ψαλιδίζω
roman: psalidízo
lang: Ido
word: cizagar
lang: Malay
word: menggunting
lang: Māori
word: kutikuti
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: tìp
lang: Norwegian
word: klippe
lang: Swedish
word: klippa
lang: Swedish
word: saxa
lang: Turkish
word: makasla kesmek
lang: Turkish
word: kayırtmak