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cheflike

cheflike adjective: resembling or befitting a chef; culinary.

Adjective

cheflike (comparative more cheflike, superlative most cheflike)

  1. 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

Forms of cheflike

comparativemore cheflike
superlativemost cheflike

Origin of cheflike

From chef + -like. Piecewise doublet of headlike.

Questions about cheflike

What does cheflike mean?
Cheflike means resembling or befitting a chef; culinary.
What part of speech is cheflike?
Cheflike is an adjective.

Words near cheflike in the dictionary

  1. cheffonier
  2. cheffoniers
  3. cheffy
  4. chefing
  5. chefless
  6. cheflike
  7. chefling
  8. cheflings
  9. chefly
  10. chefmanship
  11. chefnap

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