scissoring

Noun

scissoring (plural scissorings)

1. (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.2009, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code, page 277
   • 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. (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, […]1879, Daniel Curry, National Repository, volume 5 or 6, page 88
   • 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
3. 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.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