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butler | butlerlike |

As a proper noun butler

is .

As an adjective butlerlike is

resembling a butler or some aspect of one.

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

    butlerlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a butler or some aspect of one.
  • * 1917 , P G Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim
    • Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father.