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buttle, v. dial.|ˈbʌt(ə)l|
[Back-formation from butler n.]
a. To pour out (drink).
1867B. Brierley Marlocks Merriton 5 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 60 The broad village green buttled round its cheap delights. 1875E. Waugh Old Cronies iii. 34 ibid., ‘Buttle out, free!’ cried Giles to the servants.
b. To do a butler's work. jocular.
1918Mrs. H. Ward War & Elizabeth iii, The under⁓housemaid ‘buttles’ for him like a lamb. 1923F. H. Kitchin Diversions of Dawson 292 Nobody could buttle like James who had not been born in a pantry and taken pap out of silver spoons. 1929W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico xvi, Peters—the head steward—is a fat fool... Seems he buttled for decaying noble families. 1954R. Fuller Fantasy & Fugue iv. 91 He valeted him as well as buttled. 1968J. C. Holmes Nothing More to Declare 98 Eric Blore spluttered and buttled like a paranoid chipmunk.
Hence ˈbuttling, ˈbutling vbl. n.
1918Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim xix. 185 How on earth did you come to be here? What's the idea? Why the buttling? 1945A. L. Rowse West-Country Stories 37 The baronet did his own butling. 1968A. Diment Gt. Spy Race x. 177 Petite was there, dressed in his butling clothes. |