CHEF

chef

(noun) a professional cook

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

chef (plural chefs)

The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

Any cook.

• Kiss the chef. (slogan on aprons used by home barbecue enthusiasts)

(slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.

(historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.

Usage notes

When used in reference to a cook with no sous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the term connotes a certain degree of prestige—whether culinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing, chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.

Within a catering establishment, the head cook (and no-one else) will normally be addressed simply as "chef" as a term of respect.

Hypernyms

• (cook): cook

Synonyms

• (cook, particularly a learned or skilful one): magirist, magirologist (obs.)

Verb

chef (third-person singular simple present chefs, present participle cheffing, simple past and past participle cheffed)

(informal) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.

(Multicultural London English, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank, to lacerate with a rambo.

Source: Wiktionary

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Chef, n. Etym: [F.]

1. A chief of head person.

2. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

3. (Her.)

Definition: Same as Chief.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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