scissoring

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Etymology[edit]

scissor +‎ -ing

Verb[edit]

scissoring

  1. present participle and gerund of scissor
    • 2009, Kelli Jae Baeli, Iso (In Search Of): The Art of Dating, Relationships & Sex for the Discerning Lesbian, page 159:
      Vary your teasing with long, palm strokes down her outer lips, scissoring, rubbing, and running your fingers between the labia majora and labia minora.

Noun[edit]

scissoring (plural scissorings)

  1. (uncommon, often figurative) An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.
    • 2009, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code, page 277:
      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.
    • 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:
      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) []
  2. (uncommon, possibly dated) A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
    • 1879, Daniel Curry, National Repository, volume 5 or 6, page 88:
      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, []
    • 1886, The Living Age, volume 171, page 826:
      A THEOLOGICAL paper: devoted to acrimonious debates about abstruse doctrines.
      A WEEKLY SCRAP paper: made up of scissorings from other newspapers.
  3. (sex) A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
    Synonyms: tribadism, trib
    • 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[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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