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

He has a voice that is so supple, eager and well-trained that it sometimes comes across as embarrassingly orotund—though, to be fair, this is the very quality that made him such a splendid Jeeves, the valet to the fop Bertie Wooster, in the TV production of the stories of P.G.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

My favorite comes in an exchange with the soupy Madeline Bassett in “The Code of the Woosters,” when Bertie comes up with a quote he heard from Jeeves, actually the title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, to describe his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle as “a sensitive plant.”

From Los Angeles Times