Scissors Pair Don’t Cut Paper Noun Bre ˈsɪzəz

• a pair of scissors
• don’t use these scissors to cut paper or card.
• these scissors don’t cut very well.
• a pair of nail scissors

scissors

1. a tool for cutting paper or cloth, that has two sharp blades with handles, joined together in the middle
• see also nail scissors
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/nail-scissors
• a pair of scissors

Extra Examples

• Don’t use these scissors to cut paper or card.
• These scissors don’t cut very well.
• a pair of nail scissors

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French cisoires, from late Latin cisoria, plural of cisorium ‘cutting instrument’, from cis-, variant of caes-, stem of caedere ‘to cut’. The spelling with sc- (16th cent.) was by association with the Latin stem sciss- ‘cut’.