Meaning

present participle and gerund of scissor.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of scissor
2. (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.
3. (uncommon, possibly dated) A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
4. (sex) A sex act in which two people intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

Example Sentences

Vary your teasing with long, palm strokes down her outer lips, scissoring, rubbing, and running your fingers between the labia majora and labia minora.

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.

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) […]

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, […]

A THEOLOGICAL paper: devoted to acrimonious debates about abstruse doctrines. A WEEKLY SCRAP paper: made up of scissorings from other newspapers.

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.

Word Forms

• scissorings

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Use scissoring when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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