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

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

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

Where was its loyal companion, the Jeeves to its Wooster, the Abbott to its Costello, the Sonny to its Cher?

From Washington Post Jun. 11, 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

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