cheese cutter
- noun
- /ˈtʃiːz ˈkʌtər/
:
cortador de queso
- She paused after drawing the wire cheese cutter through the cheddar that Dinah had chosen.
Examples
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She used a cheese cutter to create even slices for her sandwich.
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The cheese cutter made it easy to serve thin pieces of brie at the party.
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"Do you ever leave the cheese cutter in the bag with the cheese?
Fiction book (1999) -
To prepare a snack, he reached for the cheese cutter to slice the gouda smoothly.
Synonyms
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2.6
A tool that cuts food into thin slices like bread or cheese
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1.8
A tool with a flat blade for cutting thin, even slices of hard cheese
A tool with a flat blade that makes thin even slices of semi-hard or hard cheese
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'cheese' (the food) with 'cutter' (a tool for cutting), yielding a tool for cutting cheese; this follows a common noun+noun compounding pattern in English. Such transparent instrument compounds are common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cheese cutter comes from a simple picture: a thin wire or blade pulled across a block of cheese, and the part cutter shows it 'cuts' the cheese. So the name literally means 'a tool for slicing cheese'.