chef

chef (absolutive indefinite)
chefa (absolutive indefinite singular)
chefak (absolutive indefinite plural)
chefek (ergative indefinite)
chefak (ergative indefinite singular)
chefek (ergative indefinite plural)
chefi (dative indefinite)
chefari (dative indefinite singular)
chefei (dative indefinite plural)
chefen (genitive indefinite)
chefaren (genitive indefinite singular)
chefen (genitive indefinite plural)
chefekin (comitative indefinite)
chefarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
chefekin (comitative indefinite plural)
chefengatik (causative indefinite)
chefarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
chefengatik (causative indefinite plural)
chefentzat (benefactive indefinite)
chefarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
chefentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
chefez (indefinite instrumental)
chefaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
chefez (indefinite instrumental plural)
chefengan (indefinite inessive)
chefarengan (indefinite inessive singular)
chefengan (indefinite inessive plural)
chefengana (allative indefinite)
chefarengana (allative indefinite singular)
chefengana (allative indefinite plural)
chefenganaino (indefinite terminative)
chefarenganaino (indefinite singular terminative)
chefenganaino (indefinite plural terminative)
chefenganantz (directive indefinite)
chefarenganantz (directive indefinite singular)
chefenganantz (directive indefinite plural)
chefenganako (destinative indefinite)
chefarenganako (destinative indefinite singular)
chefenganako (destinative indefinite plural)
chefengandik (ablative indefinite)
chefarengandik (ablative indefinite singular)
chefengandik (ablative indefinite plural)
chefik (indefinite partitive)
cheftzat (indefinite prolative)


chef

A boss; person in charge, person who directly oversees the work being done

head

chef c (singular definite chefen, plural indefinite chefer)

chefen (definite singular)
chefer (indefinite plural)


chef

Chef, halte hoor.

Driver, I'd like to get off the bus here.

(Suriname) A form of address to a working-class man

nl-noun

chef m (plural chefs, diminutive chefje n, feminine cheffin)

chefs (plural)
chefje (diminutive neuter)
cheffin (feminine)

→ Caribbean Javanese: sèf

→ Indonesian: sep

→ Javanese: ꦱꦺꦥ꧀ (sèp)

→ Papiamentu: shèf


chef

The Chef's peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.

a. 1845, R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245

The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

The cause of the disturbance, it appeared, was the angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Is Both Quarrelsome and Sentimental”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 266:

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

My partner is the chef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.

But trying to stop all the nation's meth chefs makes as much sense as building a wall along the Mexican border.

1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 3, page 100:

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.

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

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

magirist

cook, particularly a learned or skilful one

→ Afrikaans: sjef

→ Malay: cef

→ Maltese: xeff

→ Thai: เชฟ (chéep)

sjef

head cook of an establishment such as a restaurant

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”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-. Doublet of cape, capo, caput, and chief through Latin, and head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.


chef

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 […]

1953, The Deke Quarterly, volume 71, number 4, page 32:

I cheffed part-time at a nice restaurant in town.

1996, Sonora Review, number 31, page 110:

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.

2020, William Sitwell, The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

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

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.

2017 June 13, @louistheroux, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-08:

He got cheffed in the A in the head

2018 August 9, “Pallance 2.0”, Taze of SMG (lyrics):

Third time he was out of luck
He tripped up and got cheffed

2018 August 16, “Ks On Who”, Sav12 of 12World (lyrics):

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.

2019 October 9, Manuel Petrovic, quotee, “Jodie Chesney: Killer targeted 'wrong people' court told”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2019-11-06:

(MLE, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank.

thinkin' that I be cheffin'.'

2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog:

en-verb

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

chefs (present singular third-person)
cheffing (participle present)
chefing (participle present uncommon)
cheffed (participle past)
cheffed (past)
chefed (participle past uncommon)
chefed (past uncommon)

→⇒ Russian: ше́фнуть (šéfnutʹ)


chef

opiner du chef

les principaux chefs d’une demande

Le procureur a tenu à refaire une lecture des chefs d’accusation.

The prosecutor insisted on reading off the counts of indictment again.

principal motive, charge, count of indictment

d’or au chef de gueules

(heraldry) chief; top third of a coat of arms

Inherited from Middle French chief, from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Doublet of cap.


chef

Le pape est le chef de l’Église.

Créant dans des établissements de prestige de nombreuses recettes reprises ensuite par d’autres chefs, Escoffier a fait connaitre internationalement la cuisine française.

Creating in prestigious establishments caused many of his recipes to be later taken up by other cooks, and thus Escoffier made French cuisine internationally known.

→ Arabic: شيف (šēf)

→ Belarusian: шэф (šef)

→ Bulgarian: шеф (šef)

→ Catalan: xef

→ Crimean Tatar: şef

→ Czech: šéf

→ Danish: chef

desctree

→ Dutch: chef
→ Caribbean Javanese: sèf
→ Indonesian: sep
→ Javanese: ꦱꦺꦥ꧀ (sèp)
→ Papiamentu: shèf

→ English: chef
→ Afrikaans: sjef
→ Malay: cef
→ Maltese: xeff
→ Thai: เชฟ (chéep)

→ German: Chef
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ше̏ф
Latin script: šȅf

→ Greek: σεφ (sef)

→ Hebrew: שֶׁף (shef)

→ Hungarian: séf

→ Italian: chef

→ Japanese: シェフ (shefu)

→ Korean: 셰프 (syepeu)

→ Lithuanian: šefas

→ Luxembourgish: Chef

→ Macedonian: шеф (šef)

→ Norwegian: sjef

→ Pannonian Rusyn: шеф (šef)

→ Polish: szef
→ Kashubian: szef

→ Portuguese: chef, chefe

→ Romanian: șef

→ Russian: шеф (šef), шефъ (šef) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: շեֆ (šef)
→ Georgian: შეფი (šepi)

→ Slovak: šéf

→ Spanish: chef

→ Swedish: chef

→ Turkish: şef

→ Ukrainian: шеф (šef)

→ Vietnamese: sếp

→ Yiddish: שעף (shef)


chef

Unadapted borrowing from French chef (“head; chief”), from Middle French chief, from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of capo.


chef

A leader, boss, or director; a chief official; one in charge.

An authority or source of power; something which controls.

The main, important or foundational part of something.

The upper or topmost portion of something.

English: chief (see there for further descendants)

Scots: chief

From Old French chief, from Latin caput.

cheef (alternative)
cheefe (alternative)
chefe (alternative)
chief (alternative)
chif (alternative)
chife (alternative)
chyeef (alternative)
chyff (alternative)


chef

Chief, head, top-ranking, executive; being in ultimate control.

Principal, foremost, predominant, primary; having the greatest importance.

High-quality, outstanding, notable, worthy; deserving recognition.

head

chef (plural and weak singular cheve, comparative chever, superlative chevest)

cheve (plural)
cheve (singular weak)
chever (comparative)
chevest (superlative)
cheef (alternative)
cheefe (alternative)
chefe (alternative)
chief (alternative)
chif (alternative)
chife (alternative)
chyeef (alternative)
chyff (alternative)

English: chief

Scots: chief


chef

From Old French chief, chef, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.


chef

fro-noun

chef oblique singular, m (oblique plural ches, nominative singular ches, nominative plural chef)

chef oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
ches (oblique plural)
ches (nominative singular)
chef (nominative plural)


chef

Alternative form of chefe (the head cook of an establishment such as a restaurant)


chef

a nu avea chef de ceva

to not feel like/be in the mood for something

revelry, binge; by extension, drunkenness

chefuri (plural)
chef (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cheful (accusative definite nominative singular)
chefuri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
chefurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
chef (indefinite singular)
chefului (definite singular)
chefuri (indefinite singular)
chefurilor (definite plural)
chefule (singular vocative)
chefurilor (vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كیف (keyf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf). Compare Turkish keyif.


chef

Unadapted borrowing from French chef. Doublet of jefe and cabo.


chef

A boss, manager; person in charge, person who directly oversees the work being done

chef (indefinite nominative singular)
chefs (genitive indefinite singular)
chefen (definite nominative singular)
chefens (definite genitive singular)
chefer (indefinite nominative plural)
chefers (genitive indefinite plural)
cheferna (definite nominative plural)
chefernas (definite genitive plural)