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chefling

noun

Etymology

From chef + -ling. Piecewise doublet of chiefling and headling.

  1. derived from caput
  2. derived from capus
  3. derived from chief
  4. suffixed as chefling — “chef + ling”

Definitions

  1. A young, little, or subordinate chef.

    • […] they see that up & coming cheflings do not scoff at peelings […]
    • “Do I ask you?”, she shouts, “what goes on in the kitchen? How do I know you're not buggering your cheflings in the larder?”
    • A part-time chef at the Santa Fe School of Cooking and full-time Culinary Arts Director at the Santa Fe Community College, Michelle proudly enjoys educating her “cheflings.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chefling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA