scissor

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scissor

/ˈsɪzə/ Australia, UK
/ˈsɪzɚ/ US
/ˈsəzə/ New Zealand
/ˈsɪzəɾ/ Scotland

Rhymes with -ɪzə(ɹ)

Where it 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”).

noun scissors

attributive Attributive form of scissors I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.
rare One blade of a pair of scissors.
South Asia, nonstandard Scissors.

verb scissors · scissoring · scissored

transitive To cut using, or as if using, scissors. […] let me know, Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust To such a Favorites glasse […]
transitive To excise or expunge something from a text. The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
obsolete, transitive To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy. 1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256, The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”
intransitive, transitive To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. The runner scissored over the hurdles.
intransitive 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.

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noun one blade on a pair of scissors

Español	tijera
Français	ciseau
Deutsch	Schere
Italiano	forbici
Ελληνικά	ψαλίδι psalídi

verb to cut using scissors

中文	剪 jiǎn
Français	couper aux ciseaux
Ελληνικά	ψαλιδίζω psalidízo

verb to excise from text

Ελληνικά	περικόπτω perikópto

verb to engage in scissoring, a sexual act

Español	hacer la tijereta, hacer la tijera
Italiano	sforbiciare

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@misc{scissor_2026,
  title = {scissor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scissor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}