cookie-cutter

See also: cookiecutter and cookie cutter

English

Cookie cutters.

Etymology

cookie + cutter

Adjective

cookie-cutter (comparative more cookie-cutter, superlative most cookie-cutter)

1. Of or pertaining to cookie cutters.
2. (idiomatic, often pejorative) Looking or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means; often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

   The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.

   I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.

Translations

of or pertaining to a cookie cutter

looking or seeming identical

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: gietvormig, doorsnee, standaard, modelvormig

• Russian: шаблонный (ru) m (šablonnyj)

Related terms

• cookie cutter