chef

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
2. The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
3. Any cook.
4. (slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
5. (historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.

Verb

1. (informal, stative) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
2. (Multicultural-London-English, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank.
3. (Internet) To impress others.

Conceptes

xef

cuiner

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Sinònims

cook

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chief

head cook

boss

leader

head

cooky

kitchen manager

cocci

coccus

cookie

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Traduccions

chef

capocuoco

cuisinier

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Chefkoch

cocinero

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cuoco

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coquus

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Koch

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Küchenchef

chefkok

chef cuisinier

kok

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αρχιμάγειρας

cozinheiro

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archimagirus

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʃɛf/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.