scissoring
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Definition of scissoring
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of scissor
“Vary your teasing with long, palm strokes down her outer lips, scissoring, rubbing, and running your fingers between the labia majora and labia minora.”
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verb
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of scissor
“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
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(figuratively, often, uncommon)An act or instance of cutting (removing) with or as if with scissors, especially an act of cutting and censoring a film.
“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) […]”
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(dated, possibly, uncommon)A clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.
“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.”
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A sex act in which two people intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
“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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Etymology
From scissor + -ing.
Words you can make from scissoring
165 playable · top: CROSSINGS (12 pts)
Best play crossings 12 points8-letter words
5 words7-letter words
12 words6-letter words
27 words- COIGNS 9 pts
- CONGII 9 pts
- CORGIS 9 pts
- CORING 9 pts
- COSIGN 9 pts
- ICINGS 9 pts
- INCOGS 9 pts
- RICING 9 pts
- CRISIS 8 pts
- IONICS 8 pts
- IRONIC 8 pts
- ORCINS 8 pts
- RICINS 8 pts
- SCIONS 8 pts
- SCORNS 8 pts
- SONICS 8 pts
- GIRONS 7 pts
- GNOSIS 7 pts
- GRISON 7 pts
- GROINS 7 pts
- ORIGIN 7 pts
- RISING 7 pts
- ROSING 7 pts
- SIGNOR 7 pts
- SIRING 7 pts
- SORING 7 pts
- ROSINS 6 pts
5-letter words
36 words- COIGN 8 pts
- CORGI 8 pts
- ICING 8 pts
- INCOG 8 pts
- ORGIC 8 pts
- CIONS 7 pts
- COINS 7 pts
- COIRS 7 pts
- CORNS 7 pts
- CROSS 7 pts
- ICONS 7 pts
- IONIC 7 pts
- ORCIN 7 pts
- RICIN 7 pts
- SCION 7 pts
- SCORN 7 pts
- SONIC 7 pts
- GIRNS 6 pts
- GIRON 6 pts
- GIROS 6 pts
- GRINS 6 pts
- GROIN 6 pts
- GROSS 6 pts
- IRING 6 pts
- RINGS 6 pts
- SIGNS 6 pts
- SINGS 6 pts
- SNOGS 6 pts
- SONGS 6 pts
- INROS 5 pts
- IRONS 5 pts
- NOIRS 5 pts
- NORIS 5 pts
- ORNIS 5 pts
- ROSIN 5 pts
- SORNS 5 pts
4-letter words
42 words- CIGS 7 pts
- COGS 7 pts
- CION 6 pts
- COIN 6 pts
- COIR 6 pts
- CONI 6 pts
- CONS 6 pts
- CORN 6 pts
- CORS 6 pts
- COSS 6 pts
- CRIS 6 pts
- ICON 6 pts
- ORCS 6 pts
- ROCS 6 pts
- SICS 6 pts
- GINS 5 pts
- GIRN 5 pts
- GIRO 5 pts
- GRIN 5 pts
- NOGS 5 pts
- ORGS 5 pts
- RIGS 5 pts
- RING 5 pts
- SIGN 5 pts
- SIGS 5 pts
- SING 5 pts
- SNOG 5 pts
- SONG 5 pts
- INRO 4 pts
- IONS 4 pts
- IRIS 4 pts
- IRON 4 pts
- NISI 4 pts
- NOIR 4 pts
- NORI 4 pts
- RINS 4 pts
- SINS 4 pts
- SIRS 4 pts
- SONS 4 pts
- SORI 4 pts
- SORN 4 pts
- SRIS 4 pts
3-letter words
31 words- CIG 6 pts
- COG 6 pts
- CIS 5 pts
- CON 5 pts
- COR 5 pts
- COS 5 pts
- ORC 5 pts
- ROC 5 pts
- SIC 5 pts
- SOC 5 pts
- GIN 4 pts
- GIS 4 pts
- GOR 4 pts
- GOS 4 pts
- NOG 4 pts
- ORG 4 pts
- RIG 4 pts
- SIG 4 pts
- INS 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- NOR 3 pts
- NOS 3 pts
- ONS 3 pts
- ORS 3 pts
- RIN 3 pts
- SIN 3 pts
- SIR 3 pts
- SIS 3 pts
- SON 3 pts
- SOS 3 pts
- SRI 3 pts
2-letter words
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