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Butler vs Chauffeur - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between butler and chauffeur

is that butler is a manservant having charge of wines and liquors while chauffeur is a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

As verbs the difference between butler and chauffeur

is that butler is to buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler while chauffeur is to be, or act as, a chauffeur driver of a motor car.

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}.

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

    chauffeur

    English

    (wikipedia chauffeur)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=3 citation , passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur , since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}
  • (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.

    • Usage notes

    As the French word has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.

    Hypernyms

    * (both senses) driver

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
  • To transport (someone) in a motor car.