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Kitchener

noun
1
A cook, especially one who works in a kitchen.
"The old manor employed a kitchener to prepare meals for the household."

Word Forms

Kitcheners plural, kitcheners plural

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Etymology

Formed from "kitchen" plus the agent suffix "-er," describing someone who works in one. It also survives as a surname and, from the British field marshal Herbert Kitchener, as a place name in Canada and Australia.

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