cheffy

Or chef·y
Or chef-y

[shef-ee]

adjective

Informal.

1. relating to, suited to, or typical of a professional chef.

   I’ve avoided cheffy techniques in these recipes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cheffy¹

chef ( def. ) + -y ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Still, Holzman puts his cheffy spin on things, fermenting his dough for five days to develop flavor and topping it with farm-fresh local ingredients.

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Freezing small portions of high-impact ingredients is one of the easiest, sneakiest ways for home cooks to borrow a bit of that cheffy magic.

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The recipes encompass the range of difficulty from downright easy to impressively cheffy, showing a level of thoughtfulness that cooks of all levels, and all these vegetables, deserve.

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While the new additions range from "cromulent" and "UAP" — here's a helpful guide for the latter — to "beast mode" and "generative AI," the food-adjacent terms include "cheffy" and "chef's kiss."

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Cheffy and smashburger are also on the list, with the former describing qualities of a professional chef and the latter being the process of pressing a hamburger patty onto a heated grill.

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