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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

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

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

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

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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