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Chef vs Butler - What's the difference?

chef | butler |

As nouns the difference between chef and butler

is that chef is the presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household while butler is a manservant having charge of wines and liquors.

As a verb butler is

to buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

As a proper noun Butler is

{{surname|A=An English and Irish occupational surname for someone who was a butler or wine servant|from=Middle English}.

chef

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household
  • *<1845 , R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning'' in ''Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245
  • *:The Chef' s peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
  • The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment
  • *1849 , Thackeray, Pendennis (1850), I. xxviii. 266
  • *:The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
  • Any cook
  • *Kiss the chef

    • Usage notes

    When used in reference to a cook with no sous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the term is connotes a certain degree of prestige—whether culinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing, chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.

    Synonyms

    * (head cook) cook

    References

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    butler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
  • The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
  • * 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
  • *:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
  • A valet, a male personal attendant.

    • Derived terms

    * buttle (backformation)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

    • References