scissoredadj.
/ˈsɪzəd/, U.S. /ˈsɪzərd/ 1. Equipped with or holding a pair of scissors. rare.
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1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 78/2 What have the Argus-eyed and inexorable scissored Austrian censors been about.
1949 M. K. Morgan New Stars vii. 79 Mother was still cutting; she was singing at her work. She called ‘goodbye’ to each one of us and waved a scissored hand.
2007 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 16 July 5 (heading) Head start for our scissored stylists.
2.
a. Of written or printed material: that has been scissored (scissor v. 2c). Now rare.
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1844 New Mirror 14 Sept. 383/2 Com. What's that lump of scissored trumpery sticking out of your waistcoat pocket? Brig. Some English notices of a star about to rise upon our operatic world.
1857 Fon du Lac (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 6 June The balance of the column was ‘scissored’ items from country and city exchanges.
1890 Ann. Grand Lodge Iowa 12 ii. 224 His scissored paragraphs are printed in the same style of text as his own courteous review.
1900 Marion (Iowa) 26 Sept. (heading) Scissored paragraphs.
1990 R. Ludlum Bourne Ultimatum ii. 16 I was given my usual thick sheaf of scissored newspaper stories.
b. That has been cut by a pair of scissors or that has the appearance of being so cut (esp. in a jagged pattern); (also) that has been cut into a particular shape or form.
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1845 Broadway Jrnl. 8 Mar. 156 Even his scissored portraits better deserve it than many portraits on canvass, which have that distinction awarded to them.
1860 River Falls (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 14 Mar. 1/4 His private desk is said to contain more perfumed notes, photographs and scissored ringlets, than it is often permitted one man to collect.
1862 Home Tutor vi. ix. 496 The plane-tree, with its angled leaves, and the hawthorn, with its scissored foliage, are tawny in their autumn dress.
1958 Life 23 June 71/1 This leggy and handsome young woman of 32 has tugged at a scissored forelock, frowned into a high corner of her isolation booth and destroyed all comers, most of them men.
1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. 1 f Like a treasure brought home from nursery school, one crudely scissored heart still hangs on Anne's refrigerator.
2007 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 21 Sept. 11 Dresses rich with embellishment, tufted with scraps of chiffon, appliques of scissored fabric and a sense of sweet summer days evolving into autumn.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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