chefとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛf/
• 韻: -ɛf

名詞

chef (複数形 chefs)

1. The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
   • <1845, R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245

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

2. The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
   • 1849, Thackeray, Pendennis (1850), I. xxviii. 266

     The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.

3. Any cook.
   • Kiss the chef. (slogan on aprons used by home barbecue enthusiasts)
4. (slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
   • 1998, SPIN (volume 14, number 3, page 100)

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

   • 2013, Mike Power, Drugs 2.0

     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.

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

使用する際の注意点

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 (かつ no-one else) will normally be addressed simply as "chef" as a term of respect.

派生語

• chefly

同意語

• (head cook): cook

動詞

chef (三人称単数 現在形 chefs, 現在分詞 cheffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 cheffed) (MLE)

1. To stab with a knife, to shank, to lacerate with a rambo.
   • 2016, ASAP of 67 (lyrics), “Skeng Man”:

     Still on my knife work chef him up with that rambo

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

     He got cheffed in the A in the head

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

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

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