scissoring

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent 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.

   2009, Kelli Jae Baeli, Iso (In Search Of): The Art of Dating, Relationships & Sex for the Discerning Lesbian, page 159

plural scissorings

1. figurativelyoftenuncommonAn 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.

   2009, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code, page 277

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   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) […]

   2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN

2. datedpossiblyuncommonA clipping; something cut out (e.g. of a newspaper) with scissors.

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

   1886, The Living Age, volume 171, page 826

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   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, […]

   1879, Daniel Curry, National Repository, volume 5 or 6, page 88

3. lifestyleA sex act in which two women 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.

   2023 April 1, Kitty Drake, “Our sleeping secrets caught on camera: nine beds and the people in them reveal everything – from farting to threesomes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: tribadism, trib