scissoring

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English

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Etymology

From scissor +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

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, →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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