scissor
Plural: scissors
Verb
Verb Forms: scissored, scissoring, scissors
- To cut or divide with a two-bladed cutting implement.
- cut with or as if with scissors
- To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
- To excise or expunge something from a text.
- To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
- To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
- 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.
Noun
- Attributive form of scissors.
- One blade on a pair of scissors.
- Scissors.
- Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
Examples
- He had to SCISSOR through the middle of the board to open up new scoring lanes.
- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
- The runner scissored over the hurdles.
Origin / 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”).
Scrabble Score: 9
scissor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscissor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scissor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
scissor: valid Words With Friends Word