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 • 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

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

All it took was a computer, Ask Jeeves and a few key words: “Con man” and “Albuquerque.”

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 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