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sous-chef

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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.

noun sous-chefs

  1. The chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.

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noun chef underneath the head chef

中文副廚 /副厨 fùchú
Portuguêssubchefe, sous-chef
DeutschSouschef
Tiếng Việtbếp phó

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@misc{sous_chef_2026,
  title = {sous-chef},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sous-chef},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}