scissor
To cut using, or as if using, scissorsTo cut using, or as if using, scissors.
Meaning
6 senses(transitive)To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
cut with or as if with scissors
(transitive)To excise or expunge something from a text.
The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
(intransitive, transitive)To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
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.
(intransitive)To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
(obsolete, transitive)To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from OldFrom 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”).
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Forms
scissors, scissoring, scissored, scissoredWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle