scissor.
Attributive form of scissors.
Meaning & usage
Attributive form of scissors.
One blade of a pair of scissors.
Scissors.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
To excise or expunge something from a text.
The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
The runner scissored over the hurdles.
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.