chef

chef, cuisinier

Personne payée pour préparer les repas, souvent responsable de la cuisine d’un restaurant.

En anglais simple : A person paid to prepare food, often in charge of a restaurant kitchen.

• The chef made our dinner.
• She works as a chef at a hotel.
• The chefs created a new menu for spring.

Synonymes : cook

Expressions courantes : head chef, restaurant chef, chef at something

cuisinier

Personne qui prépare des repas, même chez elle.

En anglais simple : A person who prepares food, including someone cooking at home.

• You can be the chef tonight.
• My dad is the chef in our family.
• The little chefs helped make sandwiches.

Synonymes : cook

Expressions courantes : chef for tonight, amateur chef, family chef

chef de cuisine, chef privé

Cuisinier qui dirige la cuisine et organise les repas dans une grande maison.

En anglais simple : The cook who manages the kitchen and meals in a large home.

• The household chef planned the meals.
• Their chef managed a kitchen with six assistants.
• The family’s chef prepared dinner for twenty guests.

Synonymes : head cook

Expressions courantes : household chef, private chef, chef of something

poignarder

Attaquer quelqu’un en lui enfonçant un couteau dans le corps.

En anglais simple : To attack someone by pushing a knife into their body.

• He threatened to chef someone during the fight.
• A gang member cheffed him outside the shop.
• The victim was cheffed in the leg.

Comment l'utiliser : chef someone up (He threatened to chef the man up.)

Synonymes : stab, shank

Expressions courantes : chef someone, chef someone up