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scissorsn.int. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French cisours, cisur. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman cisours, cisurs, sisurs, also (singular) cisur scissors (13th cent.; compare Old French scisoure , also (plural) sisos (13th cent.), and Middle French cisoire , cisoires , sisoueres (14th cent.)), ultimately (with suffix substitution: compare -our suffix) < post-classical Latin cisoria (feminine) cutting instrument (a636 in Isidore), perhaps showing reanalysis of the plural of cisorium (neuter) cutting instrument (although this is apparently first attested later: 14th cent.) < classical Latin -cīs- , past participial stem of -cīdere , form used in prepositional compounds of caedere (past participial stem caes- ) to fell, strike, beat, slay, cut (see caesura n.) + -ōrium -ory suffix1. The sense ‘to cut’, rare in the simple verb caedere , is prominent in most of the compounds (as abscīdere abscise v., concīdere concise v., incīdere incise v., excīdere excise v.1); hence the post-classical Latin use of cis- instead of caes- in derivatives related to this sense. The form cisorium was formerly read also at Vegetius Digesta artis mulomedicinae 1. 22. 1 (4th cent.), where modern editions read succisorium . Compare Old Occitan cisoire (1506), Italian cesoie shears (1272). Compare also chisel n.1 and foreign-language forms discussed at that entry.The spelling with sc (see γ. forms), which is first found in the late 15th cent., apparently results from folk-etymological association with classical Latin scissor person who carves meat, type of gladiator, in post-classical Latin also tailor (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources; < sciss- , past participial stem of scindere scind v. + -or -or suffix), or perhaps with its parent verb scindere scind v. (Compare similarly scythe n.) There is no evidence for this association occurring at an earlier date, though in documents from later medieval England scissor (written also cissor, cisor) was the usual Latin word for a tailor. A. n. 1. An instrument used for cutting paper, fabric, hair, etc., consisting of a pair of pivoted blades attached to handles, each handle having a hole for the thumb and some of the fingers respectively, and operated by bringing the handles together so that the sharp edges of the blades close on the material to be cut. Cf. shear n.1 1. N.E.D. (1910) remarks: ‘The larger instruments of this kind, especially those which are too large to be manipulated with one hand, are called shears. Tailors call the large size shears, the medium size trimmers, and the small size scissors or cuts. In Scottish dialects all sizes of the article are called shears, the word scissors not being in use.’button-hole scissors, cutting-out scissors, garden-scissors, grape-scissors, hair-scissors, hedge-scissors, iris-scissors, kitchen scissors, manicure scissors, nail scissors, pinking scissors, pruning scissors, ring scissors, squint-scissors, etc.: see the first element.society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 28v (MED) Forpex, a cysour. Focipula [read Forcipula], a lytel cysoure. (Harl. 221) 456 Sysowre, schere, forpex. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid (new ed.) vi. f. 71v But Damasicthon (on whose heade came neuer sizzer) felt Mo woundes than one. 1611 R. Cotgrave Forcette, a cizar, a small paire of sheeres. 1745 J. Swift On Dan Jackson's Picture cut in Paper in X. 204 Come sit, says my Lady, then whips up her Scissar, And cuts out his Coxcomb in Silk in a Trice, Sir. 1786 G. M. A. Baretti 241 They seem to me to meet each other as nicely, as the two blades of a scissor just come from the grinder. 1813 J. M. Good et al. at Cutlery It [sc. steel] must possess..great tenacity when hot for the purpose of forming the bow or ring of the scissor. 1848 55 441 If there be any superfluous substance, it can be cut off with a scissor. 1913 June 33/1 In packing each scissor is placed in a paper packet. 1999 C. A. Dickman & N. I. Perin in C. A. Dickman et al. iv. 41/1 The surgeon usually dissects the pleura and vessels using a forceps in the nondominant hand and a scissor in the dominant hand. b. In plural form. society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] α. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 128v Þan wiþ sisours be it kut. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 690 And moo berdys in two oures Withoute Rasour or Sisoures Y-made then greyndes be of sondes. c1460 (?c1400) l. 2918 Som went to with sesours. 1530 J. Palsgrave 251/1 Payre of sycers, ciseletz, forces. 1573 T. Tusser (new ed.) f. 14v A buttrice & pincers, a hammer & naile, an Apern & syssers [1577 siszers], for hed & for tayle. 1592 R. Greene sig. D3v Then begins he to take his sissars in his hand and his combe. 1617 J. Woodall 25 Two paire of good sizers for to cut haire. 1682 T. Shadwell ii. 22 Out upon that filthy visage, My maid with her Sizars in two minutes shall Cut me a Better in brown paper. 1706 J. Vanbrugh iv. 45 And there's thy pretty Pocket-Sissars thou hast honour'd me with. 1719 D. Defoe 65 I found..one Pair of large Sizzers. 1842 B. Barton Let. 14 May in 71 His elf-locks look as they had never known sizzors. 1871 F. E. Fisher i. 6 When the cruel sissors had severed the first sunny lock, she started to her feet. 1917 Jan. 131/1 With a pair of sharp sissors cut from A to B. 1973 A. Bean In-flight (Skylab) Diary in D. Hitt et al. 496 The little pockets for pens and pencils, knife and sizzers. 1565 T. Cooper at Forfex A sisers, or sheares. 1697 M. Geddes tr. F. de Vargas y Mexia in 36 Two Clips with a Cissers. 1755 S. O'Halloran 34 One of the Gentlemen already mentioned, has invented a Scissors, whose Backs are sharp, and which of course cut by opening. 1847 E. Brontë I. ix. 164 Now, don't you think the lad would be handsomer cropped?.. Get me a scissors. 1851 S. Warner I. iv. 47 What a lovely scissors! did you choose it, mamma, or did it belong to the box? 1909 5 43 The scissors is inserted into the duct and the cut made as low down as possible. 1976 29 May 11/1 Each without the other is only half a scissors. 2001 27 Dec. 12/4 Introduce the point of a scissors into the soft part. 1606 J. Day sig. E2v Sweete Femenine, clip off the taile of thy discourse with the Sissars of attention. 1655 tr. C. Sorel iii. 75 This good Servant..somewhat courtailed our Commons, and for this reason we gave him the nick-name of being Hortensius his Sissors. 1743 E. Young 42 Aid me to keep Pace With Destiny; and e'er her Scissars cut My thread of Life, to break this tougher Thread Of Moral Death, that ties me to the World. 1770 tr. M.-A. du Bocage II. 211 The scissars of time cut their [sc. the Alps'] summits into a thousand strange forms. 1843 T. Carlyle ii. xvi. 169 And Jocelin's Boswellean Narrative, suddenly shorn through by the scissors of Destiny, ends. 1883 13 Oct. 464/2 A Life of Gargantua on which he has plied the not unnecessary scissors. 1942 12 Feb. 2/1 The eastern blade of the invasion scissors which the Japanese are seeking to close on Java. 1968 2 7/1 Even if movies survived the scissors of the censor they rarely made money. 2010 D. Mustaine xv. 293 I could actually hear the scissors of emasculation. society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > for gripping block of stone 1836 XIV. 450/2 A combination of levers called zig-zag, or lazy tongs, or scissors. 1892 R. L. Stevenson vi. 198 That two men should handle a stone so heavy, even swinging in the scissors. 1999 D. Adler (ed. 2) 20-17 Bridges are long lifts which span the width of the proscenium opening... They are driven by screw jacks, scissors, chain or hydraulic systems. 4. With singular agreement. the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > stroke > specific 1908 27 Aug. 3/2 The kick is the single scissors ‘Lancashire’ style, or single overleg. 1917 3 June iii. 3/2 The double trudgeon-crawl style, featured by two comparatively wide scissors or two such scissors and narrower ones in between. 1922 G. Barnes i. iv. 19 The [thrash] kick is easiest learned..if built up from the scissors by the addition of a flutter. This cannot be done, however, if the scissors has been learned upside down. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres 1909 10 Feb. 8/2 In the second bout Crozier, after a few minutes, again put the scissors on, and this time pinned his man down after using the double nelson. 1954 15 July 28/5 Now when you clamped that scissors on me in seven minutes and 10 seconds, they went out of here feeling cheated. 1975 M. Amis x. 57 So-and-so's drooling idolatry of his author makes Tennyson's praise of Wellington look like a neck-scissors and body-slam followed by a forearm-smash. 2008 J. Capouya vi. 57 The two meanies..both attacked George at once..and each got him in a leg scissors. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > high jump > method of 1912 Mar. 8 Some will try the side jump (scissors,) and others will try other styles which were not possible with a straight run and a board take off. 1917 May 781/1 There are two good styles for making the standing high jump—the ‘scissors’ and the ‘roll over’. 1964 M. Watman 79/2 There are four basic styles of high jumping: scissors, eastern cut-off, western roll and straddle... The ordinary scissors, which is taught to most schoolchildren, is the least effective of the four styles. 2002 W. Pietersen ii. 28 Another competitor..was using a completely new technique, quite different from the scissors. society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy 1924 M. Farbman vii. 125 The economic crisis of the autumn and winter of 1923–24 is known as the crisis of the scissors. 1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas iv. ii. 193 The index of labour income shows that the scissors between the income of skilled and semi-skilled workers widened considerably. 1979 Mar. 25/1 The closing of the price scissors (the gap between the price paid for agricultural foods and the prices paid by the peasants for manufactured goods) has not gone far enough. 1993 7 Aug. 64/1 Farmers in all the former communist countries have been trapped between the ‘price scissors’ of increasing costs and decreasing revenues. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres 1948 June 303/2 Capt. Dey and Lt. Brandram pulled off a scissors from a quick heel in a midfield scrum. 1960 V. Jenkins 106 One forty yards' run of his, after he and Malcolm Thomas had worked a perfect dummy scissors, was a gem. 1976 3 Dec. They worked one of their excellent set pieces including two dummies, a well taken scissors and a Gary Owen. 2012 (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 28 Oct. (Sport section) 9 O'Driscoll..moved the attack back left, where Sexton worked a scissors with McFadden. the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > mouth or jaw > fleshy area on side of 1951 C. Richards ix. 159 Some are..hooked as cleanly as in any other form of bait fishing. I have had them caught in the lip and in the scissors. 1987 Mar. 82/4 But fishing something just subsurface in a twisting, boisterous stream..also results in a trout taking and becoming hooked in the scissors before the angler is conscious of any such interception. 2007 A. Little iii. 42 The pike is hooked in the scissors without any need to allow the take to develop. 1964 Autumn 52/2 The oxygen molecules act like a pair of molecular scissors and will cut the polyethylene molecules up into small pieces until they begin to approach the size of those of paraffin wax. 1985 30 48/2 (caption) Each enzyme, acting as a pair of biological scissors, cuts the DNA at its own specific sites and nowhere else. 1991 S. Easteal et al. ii. 19 The tools we use are known as ‘restriction enzymes’, precise molecular scissors that cut the DNA duplex at specific base sequences. 2008 (National ed.) 14 Nov. a16/6 [He]..is working on using RNA ‘hairpin scissors’ to cut out the bits of genetic material in blood stem cells that code for the receptors. B. int.1839 23 Feb. 279/1 ‘Oh! Scissors!’ is the most appropriate oath for an editor to make use of when news is scarce. 1879 23 Aug. 83/2 Oh, scissors! jest didn't we give 'em tantivy? 1910 W. Caine (1911) xiv. 270 ‘Scissors!’ he shouted and stuck his finger in his mouth. 1917 20 Oct. 23/2 ‘Oh, scissors!’ Hackett exclaimed in a voice of disgust. Phrases P1. 1772 A. Murphy Prol. 5 Historians..who only take Scissars and paste;—cut, vamp; a book they make. 1809 Apr. 266 He was to..take the scissors and paste brush in hand. 1817 W. Scott 16 June (1933) IV. 465 The incidents selected should have some reference to amusement as well as information, and may be occasionally abridged in the narration; but, after all, paste and scissors form your principal materials. 1890 7 June 730/1 A certain snippetiness of style and arrangement, which is too suggestive of paste and scissors. 1951 26 39 While such cradle-to-grave lexicography must be impressive to the uninitiate, it may also reflect an assurance born largely of scissors and paste. 2012 G. Law in J. Kucich & J. B. Taylor III. i. iii. 51 Aspiring writers ascend directly via the inkhorn and quill, though others try to scramble up on the scissors and paste-brush of hack journalism. b. 1800 62 And pray Mr. Cayenne is it known who was the author of this scissors and paste work? 1843 14 Sept. Your adapters of other men's works to the American market, your compilers, your scissors-and-paste men. 1881 9 Feb. 144/4 (advt.) It is not a ‘Scissors and Paste’ Journal, filled up with crude clippings. 1936 J. Deschin 181 The term refers to a photographic process entirely and not to the scissors-and-paste method (known as collage) practiced by some in the name of photomontage. 1946 R. G. Collingwood 257 History constructed by excerpting and combining the testimonies of different authorities I call scissors-and-paste history. 2001 I. Sinclair (2002) i. iv. 45 Waugh was left with a bowdlerised account of the trial, a scissors-and-paste number delivered with a certain venomous flair. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others 1927 G. Fairlie (title) Scissors cut paper. 1934 P. Fleming ii. ii. 198 From a room downstairs came that sound which so often accompanies meals in China—the staccato, competitive ejaculations of a party playing the ‘scissors’ game. 1952 J. B. Pick 291 Scissors and stones. 1964 I. Fleming i. 18 It was the old game of Scissors cut Paper, Paper wraps Stone. Stone blunts Scissors, that is played by children all over the world. 1989 (Nexis) 15 July The world's most spoiled children..playing hop scotch and scissors and stone on the crowded streets. 1993 J. Kay ii. iii. 47 The childhood game of stone-scissors-paper. Compounds C1. Compounds with scissor. a. General attributive and objective (with agent nouns). society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of > blade or edge of 1802 2nd Ser. 1 336 The blades act on the same principle as scissor-blades. 1879 9 514 After closure of the scissor-blades. 2012 M. G. Frank 135 Over the shuffling of my scissor blades, I hear Ruby mutter something interrogative to Lance. society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] 1602 J. Manningham 4 Feb. (1976) 182 A Scisser Case:..These scissers doe your huswifry bewray, You love to worke though you be borne to playe. 1706 No. 4234/5 Two Scisser Cases.., both of Silver. 1898 Aug. 177/2 Another useful and ornamental article is a scissor case. 2001 L. Kleypas 276 Extracting a tiny scissor-case from his own pocket, Fretwell tried to snip the capped end off the cigar. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of cutting instruments > [noun] 1704 No. 4082/4 Scizer or Knife-maker. 1844 27 Apr. 161/1 If we take a Directory of Sheffield..we shall see..Edge-tool makers, Scissor-makers, Spade and Shovel makers. 2011 T. Funk iv. 121 Scissor-maker Fiskars has experienced great success building a scrapbooking community. b. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres 1897 H. F. Leonard & F. A. Fernald iii. 195 (heading) Scissor Hold upon the Head. 1974 D. Sears iii. 43 She pulled my head down close, jimmied her knees around my leg so that she had a scissor hold. 1991 D. Koontz i. iii. 119 I think I could get a man in a scissor hold, crack him in half with my legs. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of cutting instruments > [noun] the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun] 1623–4 c. 31 §6 The Occupacion of a Cutler, Scissorsmith, Shearsmith or Sicklesmith. 1797 J. Robinson 42 Ashmore, James, fine scissorsmith, 31, Duke-street, Park. 1813 10 May 294/2 S. Broadhead and E. Gurney, Sheffield, scissor-smiths. 1985 B. J. Mills 77 By the seventeenth century there were skilled scissor-smiths, especially in France. 2002 (Nexis) 2 Dec. 36 I asked my Italian scissor smith to work his magic. 2009 (Nexis) 26 Nov. 21 ‘She's worn the same hairstyle for decade after decade after decade,’ said the acid-tongued scissorsmith. the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > carnassial 1837 VII. 502/2 The jaws should be limited to the motions of elevation and depression, so admirably fitted for working the cutting edges of the scissor-teeth of the Carnivora. 1840 E. Blyth et al. 151 The carnassier, or scissor-tooth. 1997 G. L. Mills & L. Hes 166/1 In addition to their scissor teeth.., carnivores have in common two bones in their feet, fused to form a so-called scapho-lunar. 2009 V. V. Upenieks x. 70 The thick black hair on Pedro's back [sc. a dog] was standing upright, his ears were pointed, his mouth hung slightly open showing his scissor teeth. the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having wings > of particular kind the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of wing(s) 1894 24 53/1 A short..column of scissor-winged birds. 1983 C. Zeldis 223 Bees with plump, amber-black bodies, and scissor-winged dragonflies had whizzed through the flower-scented air. 2009 J. G. Workman ii. ix. 84 Africa's twenty-two species of endemic biting, scissor-winged, blood-sucking tsetse fly guarded the wild humid landscapes. C2. Compounds with scissors. a. General attributive. 1893 Mar. 130/2 A first-rate jump in the scissors style is rarely seen, and we know of no record. 1928 15 Apr. 29/4 Simmons tied for first place at 3 ft. 8 in., jumping with the ordinary scissors method. 1959 1 Oct. 3/3 Her legs..flashed over the bar in the old-fashioned scissors style. 2000 D. Morton et al. 76 In the ‘scissors’ technique the jumper's centre of gravity has to be moved higher than in the ‘Fosbury Flop’. c1915 R. A. Lloyd in E. B. Poulton (1919) 218 The ‘Scissors’ trick was this: when I had the ball, and Ronald was running beside me just as if he was going to take an ordinary pass, he would suddenly change his direction and come racing straight across at me and practically take the ball out of my hands, and breaking clean through would run right across to the opposite wing. 1927 W. W. Wakefield & H. P. Marshall 229 The two [sc. a centre and wing three-quarter] may also combine when the centre still has the ball, when..they exploit the scissors movement. 1963 9 Apr. 4/5 Wasps were now using every artifice of passing and from a scissors pass by Tapper to Hurst, they scored again. 1998 Nov. 12/5 A stunning scissors move between outside half and full back put us further ahead. b. society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy 1925 4 153 The ‘scissors crisis’ of 1923 and 1924, its causes and results are also lucidly explained. 1972 26 Dec. 8/5 Entrepreneurs could be tempted to cut back on investments because the scissors crisis would affect their capacity to save. 2012 E. A. Rees iii. 46 The famous ‘scissors crisis’, reflecting the disparity between agricultural and industrial prices, prompted a crisis in urban-rural trade. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres 1904 H. H. Skinner 117 Hasami Shime, or Scissors Grip. 1910 15 Dec. A scissors grip and bar lock laid him low. 1936 19 July 13/3 It would have been a shame to have let the charming Sophie die in the scissors grip of censorship. 2007 J. Dibia (2008) xvi. 191 Thomas' legs held James down in a scissors grip. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres 1899 29 Apr. 3/1 Parker with a scissors hold on his opponent's legs bent him until his back was injured. 1921 W. H. Harrison 57 Helping the world to finally get a Zbyszko ‘toehold’ a Stecher ‘scissors-hold’ and a Lewis ‘strangle-hold’ upon Germany. 2011 N. Hopkinson in H. Black & E. Kushner 374 Beti..somehow managed to twist her body and use her legs in a scissors hold around Gladstone's waist. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > high jump > method of 1893 Mar. 130/2 The ‘scissors jump’ is never used by the best athletes. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. I. 50/2 The methods of jumping are various, but two main types predominate—viz., the straight jump, and the side-way or scissors jump. 1997 Mar. 130/1 I was very good at the high jump until everyone started doing the Fosbury Flop..I could only do the scissors jump. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of cutting instruments > [noun] 1802 Mar. 182/2 Married..Mr. J. Sharp, scissors smith, to Miss J. Ellis. 1913 G. I. H. Lloyd x. 244 In 1791 a benefit society was established among the Sheffield scissors-smiths. 1991 J. Sperber 7 What..did the revolution mean to a baker in Cologne, a scissors-smith of Höhscheid? Derivatives 1853 Apr. 415 She [sc. a bee] applies her sharp jaws to the edge, and cuts out, scissor-wise, a perfectly circular piece. 1873 C. W. Thomson v. 214 A pair of scoops..close upon one another scissorwise on a hinge. 1999 R. R. Wilson 202 She had crossed, with clipped, hobbling gait, scissor-wise, in front of him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.int.a1425 |
