scissor

Meanings

Plural: scissors

Verb

cut with or as if with scissors
To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
To excise or expunge something from a text.
To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
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.

Noun

Attributive form of scissors.
One blade on a pair of scissors.
Scissors.
Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Scrabble Score: 9

scissor is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
scissor is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scissor is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

scissor is a valid Words With Friends word