chef
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French chef (from the positions of chef d'office and chef de cuisine), from Old French chief (“head, leader”) (English chief), from Vulgar Latin capus (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (possibly related to English cap (“head covering”)).
Doublet of cape, capo, caput, and chief through Latin, and head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.
Inflected forms:
form: chefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chefs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cheffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cheffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cheffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
pos: noun
examples: The Chef's peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
gloss: The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
pos: noun
examples: The cause of the disturbance, it appeared, was the angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
gloss: Any cook.
pos: noun
examples: My partner is the chef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.
gloss: One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But trying to stop all the nation's meth chefs makes as much sense as building a wall along the Mexican border.
Owsley Stanley, the world's most exacting and prolific LSD chef who supplied the majority of America's West Coast with LSD in the 1960s, claimed he made so much acid not because he wanted to change the world, but rather because it was almost impossible not to make vast quantities of the drug once the synthesis had been embarked upon.
gloss: A reliquary in the shape of a head.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
pos: verb
tags: informal
stative
examples: It was Brick who talked on alumni relations with the active chapters and who cheffed at our steak fry (more of that later) and Mrs. Cowles who took over […]
I cheffed part-time at a nice restaurant in town.
He opened Oakleys in 2002, having formerly cheffed at the late, much-missed Something Different and, before that, world-renowned kitchens in Chicago […]
A man called Richard Briggs cheffed at the Globe Tavern on Fleet Street, the White Hart Tavern in Holborn and the Temple Coffee House.
gloss: To stab with a knife, to shank.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
transitive
examples: He got cheffed up proper.
Still on my knife work chef him up with that rambo
Child just said he'd "chef me up". I said not hungry, but it restored my faith in young generation, offering to cook for strangers.
He got cheffed in the A in the head
Third time he was out of luck
He tripped up and got cheffed
Asked how he knew that, he replied: "Uh? Because I know that ... It was to do with Svenson's op - they cheffed him up a couple of month or something, a couple of months before.
gloss: To impress others.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: thinkin' that I be cheffin'.'
Related words: chef de cuisine
chef de mission
chef de rang
chef d'oeuvre
chef d'œuvre
chef-d'œuvre
Derived words: autochef
chefdom
chefess
cheffery
cheffy
chefless
cheflike
chefling
chefly
chefmanship
Chef Mike
chefnap
chef salad
chef's kiss
cheftender
chefware
chef watcher
chefwear
head chef
nonchef
pastry chef
robochef
short-order chef
station chef
subchef
superchef
uberchef
underchef
cheffer
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