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

Sometimes you have a snack, and it’s easier to rinse off the plate than summon Jeeves to do it for you.

From Salon

Ms Steele told BBC Radio Northampton's Liz Jeeves: "For a scale of a pop-up like this, we really need to open it up to everyone to make sure that the food goes out instead of being wasted."

From BBC

But at the summit of Wodehouse’s genius are the stories of Bertie Wooster and his “gentleman’s personal gentleman,” or valet, Jeeves.

From Los Angeles Times

Bertie and Jeeves, as the British essayist Alexander Cockburn once asserted, are a pairing as momentous in literary history as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, or Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

From Los Angeles Times

Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”

From Los Angeles Times