CHEF
chef
(noun) a professional cook
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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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