chef

Meanings

Noun

• The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
• The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
• Any cook.
• One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
• A reliquary in the shape of a head.

Verb

• To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
• To stab with a knife, to shank.

Related

Similar words

• magirist, magirologist

Broader meaning words

• cook

Origin

• Borrowed 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") (English cap), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).