cookie-cutterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

派生語

名詞

cookie-cutter (plural cookie-cutters)

1. (chiefly attributive) Alternative form of cookie cutter.
   • 1916, ad in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 33, page 87:

     Let Us Send You a Trial Package

     Ten cents (stamps or coin) will bring you a One-Cake package, enough for a nice “company cake," and we will include a 10c Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cook Book of Choice Cocoanut Recipes.

     The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York

   • 1986, Deniece Schofield, Escape from the Kitchen, →ISBN:

     Cookie cutters and cake-decorating tools are boxed separately in plastic containers (with lids) so I can stack them up. If you have a large cookie-cutter collection, separate them by holiday or season and package in separate smaller boxes and don't forget to label them accordingly.

   • 2002, Mary Engelbreit, Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: Here Comes Santa Claus, →ISBN, page 96:

     For platters of good-looking holiday tea sandwiches, look in your cookie-cutter drawer.

   • 2013, Rom Harre, Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed our View of the World, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:

     In the passive condition the hand was held palm upwards and the cookie-cutters were pressed on to the sensitive skin of the palm. In the active condition it was the finger tips which were mainly in contact with the cookie-cutter.

参考

使用する際の注意点

• First used only in an attributive position and without degrees of comparison (from the 1920s); then used freely in a predicate position (from the 1990s). Some speakers avoid using it in the predicate position.

Further reading

• “cookie-cutter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

別の表記

• cookiecutter
• cookie-cutter

名詞

cookie cutter (plural cookie cutters)

1. A device used to cut flattened dough into shapes before baking.

同意語

• biscuit cutter

派生語

• cookie-cutter
• cookiecutter shark