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butlerlike

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Etymology

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From butler +‎ -like.

Adjective

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butlerlike (comparative more butlerlike, superlative most butlerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a butler.
    • 1917, P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim:
      Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father.