Noun: chef
Sample Sentences
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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]
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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:]
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My partner is the chef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.
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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:]
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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. [2013, Mike Power, Drugs 2.0:]
Nouns inflected like chef
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”)).
2. Doublet of cape, capo, caput, and chief through Latin, and head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European. See: Latin Nouns '
caput'.