butler

plural butlers

1. A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
2. The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

   1 more example

   “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"

   1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster

3. A valet, a male personal attendant.

present singular third person butlers · participle present butlering · participle past butlered · past butlered

1. To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

plural Butlers

1. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableAn English and Irish surname from Middle English [in turn originating as an occupation], for someone who was a butler or wine servant.
   2. countableuncountableAn Anglicized form of the French Boutilier, Boutillier, Bouthillier surname from French of similar derivation.
2. countableuncountableA male given name.
3. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Alabama.
   2. countableuncountableA populated place in Mohave County, Arizona.
   3. countableuncountableA ghost town in Fresno County, California.
   4. countableuncountableA small city, the county seat of Taylor County, Georgia.
   5. countableuncountableA small village in Montgomery County, Illinois.
   6. countableuncountableA small city in DeKalb County, Indiana.
   7. countableuncountableA home rule city in Pendleton County, Kentucky.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
   9. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Bates County, Missouri.
   10. countableuncountableA borough of Morris County, New Jersey.
   11. countableuncountableA town in Wayne County, New York.
   12. countableuncountableA village in Richland County, Ohio.
   13. countableuncountableA town in Custer County, Oklahoma.
   14. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
   15. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
   16. countableuncountableA tiny town in Day County, South Dakota.
   17. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Johnson County, Tennessee.
   18. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas.
   19. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas.
   20. countableuncountableA small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
   21. countableuncountableA village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
   22. countableuncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Butler Township.
   23. countableuncountableA location in Canada
   24. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
   25. countableuncountableA locality in South Australia.
   26. countableuncountableAn outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
   27. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Butler County.
   28. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Butler River.