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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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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

Bertie and Jeeves, as the British essayist Alexander Cockburn once asserted, are a pairing as momentous in literary history as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, or Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2025

In his Jeeves stories, Bertie Wooster is briefly employed by a magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which was housed "in one of those rummy streets in the Covent Garden neighbourhood".

From BBC Apr. 15, 2025

At times, his standoff with the diffident British establishment seems like something out of a Jeeves and Wooster farce.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2022

“Nah, I’ll send Jeeves to go get some,” Erin said.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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