scissoring
Verb
  1. present participle of scissor#English|scissor
    • 2009, Kelli Jae Baeli, Iso (In Search Of): The Art of Dating, Relationships & Sex for the Discerning Lesbian, page 159 ↗
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    My daughter likes scissoring too much, she'll cut up any and all papers when she gets a hold of a pair.
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.
    • 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, ISBN 0295989432
      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, in 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
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