scissoring en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From scissor + -ing.
Meanings
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(figuratively, often, uncommon) An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.
It's got plenty to make them blanch if and when it is shown them, although the New York State censor board okayed it with insignificant scissorings.
2009, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code, page 277:The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]
2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:
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(dated, possibly, uncommon) A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
The whole work looks very much like somebody's scrapbook, a decidedly good one, however, scissorings from the current literature of the last ten years, with a moderate infusion of extracts from earlier sources, […]
1879, Daniel Curry, National Repository, volume 5 or 6, page 88:A THEOLOGICAL paper: devoted to acrimonious debates about abstruse doctrines. A WEEKLY SCRAP paper: made up of scissorings from other newspapers.
1886, The Living Age, volume 171, page 826:
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A sex act in which two people intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
Divya […] The evenings aren’t our most sexy time together, as a couple. Frankie Yeah, the scissoring tends to happen in the afternoon. We often combine it with a nap. We love napping.
2023 April 1, Kitty Drake, “Our sleeping secrets caught on camera: nine beds and the people in them reveal everything – from farting to threesomes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| scissorings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (8)
pl nożycowanie (sex act) · es tribadismo (sex act) · fr ciseaux (sex act) · fi saksitus (sex act) · es tijereta (sex act) · es tijera (sex act) · fr tribadisme (sex act) · nl scharen (sex act)