Jeeves

Cultural  

1. A servant who appears in comic novels and short stories about the English upper classes by P. G. Wodehouse, a twentieth-century British author who spent most of his life in the United States.

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Example Sentences

"I like to serve. I like the Jeeves kind of feeling," he says with a grin.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

Jeeves is a deus ex machina; we learn almost nothing about him, except for imperturbability and skill at solving the crises that Bertie falls into through his pure cloth-headedness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

But when he arrives at the old woman's house, she's already made him, having typed "con man in Albuquerque" into Ask Jeeves to see his name pop up, "big as day."

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2022

At times, his standoff with the diffident British establishment seems like something out of a Jeeves and Wooster farce.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

P. G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves offers what is among the funniest instances of a failure of decorum in all of literature.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith