单词 | buttling |
释义 | > as lemmasbuttling buttling n. (also butling) the fact or practice of working as a butler, a butler's work; cf. butlering n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > butler > office or action of butlership1462 butleringa1739 buttling1918 1918 P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim xix. 185 How on earth did you come to be here? What's the idea? Why the buttling? 1945 A. L. Rowse West-Country Stories 37 The baronet did his own butling. 1968 A. Diment Great Spy Race x. 177 Petite was there, dressed in his butling clothes. 2007 Independent 15 Oct. (Extra section) 3/2 In the last 10 years, however, ‘buttling’ has been reinvented to accommodate many activities. < as lemmas |
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