mince vs scissor

mince

verb
  • To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely. 

  • To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise. 

  • To effect mincingly. 

  • To make less; to make small. 

  • To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner. 

  • To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner. 

  • To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent. 

  • To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly). 

noun
  • Finely chopped meat; minced meat. 

  • An eye (from mince pie). 

  • Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. 

  • An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. 

  • An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation. 

scissor

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

How often have the words mince and scissor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )