Butler vs Factotum - What's the difference?
butler | factotum |
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.
(dated) A person having many diverse activities]] or [[responsibility, responsibilities.
(dated) A general servant.
* 1847 , , Chapter 73,
A jack of all trades.
An individual employed to do all sorts of duties.
As nouns the difference between butler and factotum
is that butler is a manservant having charge of wines and liquors while factotum is a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities.As a verb butler
is to buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.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
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(en noun)Derived terms
* buttle (backformation)References
factotum
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(en noun)- I had almost forgotten Monee, the grinning old man who prepared our meal. […] He was Po-Po’s factotum —cook, butler, and climber of the bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees; and, added to all else, a mighty favourite with his mistress; with whom he would sit smoking and gossiping by the hour.