scissor man
/ˈsɪzə man/noun
1A tailor.
- Chiefly with reference to a character in Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, who cuts off children's thumbs with a pair of giant scissors as a punishment for thumbsucking..
2 Generally. A person, especially a man, who uses scissors. Hence allusively : a compiler; a censor.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Archaeologia Aeliana. In some forms from the singular of scissors + man.
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