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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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Jeeves was a nice gentleman who answered our questions for decades.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”

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

But when he arrives at the old woman's house, she's already made him, having typed "con man in Albuquerque" into Ask Jeeves to see his name pop up, "big as day."

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 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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