Jeeves

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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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Jeeves

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

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025

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 ● 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

Ask Jeeves, a web search engine that started before Google, still has fans and people typing “Ask Jeeves a question” into Google searches.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 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