cookie-cuttered

English

Adjective

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

  1. Synonym of cookie-cutterish
    • 1998 June 27, Truly Donovan, “Applebee's - yuck”, in alt.usage.english‎[1] (Usenet):
      By my definition, no TGIFs that I have been in in the last 20 years could really be considered a "fern bar." They're too Disneyfied, red-checkered-tableclothed, and cookie-cuttered. The hamburgers are now merely okay.
    • 2001, United States, Congress, House, Committee on Agriculture, Formulation of the 2002 Farm Bill, Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Its Subcommittees, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, May, June, July, 2001:
      One thing that - and I don't know whether we're going to have a cookie-cutter approach from the standpoint of trying to develop a general farm policy, and then delve into each of the commodities and see whether or not that policy will fit within the framework of that cookie-cuttered approach or are we going to go and treat each crop differently, the way we've done in years past.
    • 2011, Taboo, Steve Dennis, Fallin' Up, My Story, page 5:
      People's lives seemed as cookie-cuttered as the housing units, and options were limited.

Verb

cookie-cuttered

  1. simple past and past participle of cookie-cutter
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