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sous chef

nounC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A sous chef is the second in command in a professional kitchen. Work as sous chef, promoted to sous chef, ask the sous chef.

The head chef designs the food and the sous chef makes the service happen, which is the harder job on the night. Sous is French for under, so the title says exactly where the post sits.

Definitions of sous chef

  1. 1nounsous chefThe second in command in a professional kitchen.C1

    “The sous chef ran the pass every Friday without the head chef in the building.”

sous chef is a cook.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    sous-chef

  2. English

    sous-chef

  3. English, today

    sous chef

sous-chef comes from French sous-chef. Compare Italian sotto capo, which was calqued into English as underboss. Perhaps there was ultimately an unattested term subcaput in Late Latin, with a variant subciput.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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