单词 | scissorer |
释义 | scissorern. Now rare. 1. Originally and chiefly U.S. A person, esp. a journalist, who takes written material from one source to use in another; a compiler. Cf. scissor v. 2c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work) > one who compilerc1330 gatherera1387 compilatorc1400 aggregator1528 collector1582 scissor man1826 scissorer1846 1846 Rep. Select Comm. Nat. Hist. 23 Mar. 12 in Documents Assembly State of N.Y., 69th Session V. These scientific scissorers have mutually charged upon the other the crime of plagiarism. 1878 Cornell Rev. Feb. 188 Ye scissorers of the college press! 1898 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Sept. 4/1 He certainly does show..considerable ability and discrimination as a scissorer. 1904 Goshen (Indiana) Weekly News-Times 16 Dec. The lynx eyed scissorer grows forgetful and prints about all that he clips as original. 1965 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 31 460 They [sc. journalists] were assiduous ‘scissorers’. 2. gen. A person who uses scissors. ΚΠ 1879 Funny Folks 24 May 162/4 There was only room for one mower, or rather scissorer, at a time on the land. 1901 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 Nov. 1359/1 If the scissorer's design is to create mental effects in the patient..that does not lie in the province of medicine. 1977 Times 15 Apr. 12/3 From the first I knew that Mr East was the scissorer for me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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