butler
noun
the chief male servant of a household, usually in charge of serving food, the care of silverware, etc.
butlerlike
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a word derived from
butler.
Example Sentences
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Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father.
From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
