Chefとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ʃɛf/, (spelling pronunciation) /t͡ʃɛf/
• 韻: -ɛf

名詞

chef (plural chefs)

1. The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
   • a. 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.
   • 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 cause of the disturbance, it appeared, was the angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.

3. Any cook.

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

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

同意語

• (cook, particularly a learned or skilful one): magirist, magirologist (obs.)

上位語

• (cook): cook

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

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

動詞

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

1. (stative, informal) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
   • 1953, The Deke Quarterly, volume 71, number 4, page 32:

     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  […]

   • 1996, Sonora Review, number 31, page 110:

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

   • 2007, Indianapolis Monthly, page 68:

     He opened Oakleys in 2002, having formerly cheffed at the late, much-missed Something Different and, before that, world-renowned kitchens in Chicago […]

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

     A man called Richard Briggs cheffed at the Globe Tavern on Fleet Street, the White Hart Tavern in Holborn and the Temple Coffee House.

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

   Synonyms: ching, splash; see also Thesaurus:stab

   He got cheffed up proper.

   • 2016, “Skeng Man”, ASAP of 67 (lyrics):

     Still on my knife work chef him up with that rambo

   • 2017 June 13, @louistheroux, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 8 November 2023:

     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.

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

     He got cheffed in the A in the head

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

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

   • 2019 October 9, Manuel Petrovic, quotee, “Jodie Chesney: Killer targeted 'wrong people' court told”, in BBC News‎, archived from the original on 6 November 2019:

     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.

3. (Internet slang) To impress others.
   • 2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog:

     thinkin' that I be cheffin'.'

派生語

派生した語

• →⇒ Russian: ше́фнуть (šéfnutʹ)

参照

別の表記

• cheef, cheefe, chefe, chief, chif, chife, chyeef, chyff

発音

• IPA: /t͡ʃeːf/

名詞

chef (uncountable)

1. A leader, boss, or director; a chief official; one in charge.
2. An authority or source of power; something which controls.
3. The main, important or foundational part of something.
4. The upper or topmost portion of something.
5. (heraldry) The heraldic chief.

関連する語

派生した語

• English: chief (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: chief

参照

• “chẹ̄f, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.

形容詞

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

1. Chief, head, top-ranking, executive; being in ultimate control.
2. Principal, foremost, predominant, primary; having the greatest importance.
3. High-quality, outstanding, notable, worthy; deserving recognition.
4. (rare) Infamous; grave.

派生語

派生した語

• English: chief
• Scots: chief

参照

• “chẹ̄f, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.

副詞

chef

1. (rare) Principally, (the) most.

参照

• “chẹ̄fe, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.

語源 2

名詞

chef

1. alternative form of chaf