cheffer

English

Etymology

chef (“to stab or cut up”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (MLE) IPA^(key): [ʃɛfə], [ʃɛfɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛfə(ɹ)

Noun

cheffer (plural cheffers)

1. (MLE) Knife.

   Synonyms: jook, jooker, ching, ying, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, shank, nank, splash, splasher

   • 2020 October 13, Vlone975 where Vlone (lyrics and music), “Ben n’ Jerry’s”‎^[1]:

     Grab the mic and I drop my cheffer

   • 2021 September 12, Bully B X Stewie X LR (Sin Squad), there Bully B (lyrics and music), “Hello”‎^[2], 0:40–0:45:

     .38 in my pouch, man do it with skills
     Man do it with tekkers, swing my cheffer

French

Etymology

From chef +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cheffer

1. Synonym of dire
2. to work as a chef

Conjugation

Conjugation of cheffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cheffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cheffant /ʃɛ.fɑ̃/ or /ʃe.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cheffé /ʃɛ.fe/ or /ʃe.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cheffe /ʃɛf/	cheffes /ʃɛf/	cheffe /ʃɛf/	cheffons /ʃɛ.fɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fɔ̃/	cheffez /ʃɛ.fe/ or /ʃe.fe/	cheffent /ʃɛf/
	imperfect	cheffais /ʃɛ.fɛ/ or /ʃe.fɛ/	cheffais /ʃɛ.fɛ/ or /ʃe.fɛ/	cheffait /ʃɛ.fɛ/ or /ʃe.fɛ/	cheffions /ʃɛ.fjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fjɔ̃/	cheffiez /ʃɛ.fje/ or /ʃe.fje/	cheffaient /ʃɛ.fɛ/ or /ʃe.fɛ/
	past historic2	cheffai /ʃɛ.fe/ or /ʃe.fe/	cheffas /ʃɛ.fa/ or /ʃe.fa/	cheffa /ʃɛ.fa/ or /ʃe.fa/	cheffâmes /ʃɛ.fam/ or /ʃe.fam/	cheffâtes /ʃɛ.fat/ or /ʃe.fat/	cheffèrent /ʃɛ.fɛʁ/ or /ʃe.fɛʁ/
	future	chefferai /ʃɛ.fʁe/ or /ʃe.fʁe/	chefferas /ʃɛ.fʁa/ or /ʃe.fʁa/	cheffera /ʃɛ.fʁa/ or /ʃe.fʁa/	chefferons /ʃɛ.fʁɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fʁɔ̃/	chefferez /ʃɛ.fʁe/ or /ʃe.fʁe/	chefferont /ʃɛ.fʁɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chefferais /ʃɛ.fʁɛ/ or /ʃe.fʁɛ/	chefferais /ʃɛ.fʁɛ/ or /ʃe.fʁɛ/	chefferait /ʃɛ.fʁɛ/ or /ʃe.fʁɛ/	chefferions /ʃɛ.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	chefferiez /ʃɛ.fə.ʁje/ or /ʃe.fə.ʁje/	chefferaient /ʃɛ.fʁɛ/ or /ʃe.fʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cheffe /ʃɛf/	cheffes /ʃɛf/	cheffe /ʃɛf/	cheffions /ʃɛ.fjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fjɔ̃/	cheffiez /ʃɛ.fje/ or /ʃe.fje/	cheffent /ʃɛf/
	imperfect2	cheffasse /ʃɛ.fas/ or /ʃe.fas/	cheffasses /ʃɛ.fas/ or /ʃe.fas/	cheffât /ʃɛ.fa/ or /ʃe.fa/	cheffassions /ʃɛ.fa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fa.sjɔ̃/	cheffassiez /ʃɛ.fa.sje/ or /ʃe.fa.sje/	cheffassent /ʃɛ.fas/ or /ʃe.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cheffe /ʃɛf/	—	cheffons /ʃɛ.fɔ̃/ or /ʃe.fɔ̃/	cheffez /ʃɛ.fe/ or /ʃe.fe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).