Meanings
adjectivecheflike (comparative more cheflike, superlative most cheflike)
comparative more cheflike · superlative most cheflike
- Resembling or befitting a chef; culinary.
Mr. Bradsell earned his renown with an exhaustive knowledge of classic cocktails, precision and speed in constructing them, and, especially, a cheflike ability to build on them continually.
2007 February 7, Kate Sekules, “The Best Town to Make an Upper Lip Stiff”, in New York Times
Origin
From chef + -like. Piecewise doublet of headlike.
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