butler

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occupations, Householdbutlerbut‧ler /ˈbʌtlə $ -ər/ noun [countable] BODHthe main male servant of a houseExamples from the Corpusbutler• I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party.• Gottfried had the gentle, self-deprecating air of a good butler and like a good butler he missed very little.• Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.• Poet Isaac Rosenfeld played the surly butler.• The door at the end of the room opened swiftly and the butler appeared.• The head of the staff was the butler, of course, a Mr Devenport.• The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed.Origin butler (1200-1300) Old French bouteillier “bottle-carrier”, from bouteille; → BOTTLE1

单词	butler
释义	butler From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occupations, Householdbutlerbut‧ler /ˈbʌtlə $ -ər/ noun [countable] BODHthe main male servant of a houseExamples from the Corpusbutler• I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party.• Gottfried had the gentle, self-deprecating air of a good butler and like a good butler he missed very little.• Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.• Poet Isaac Rosenfeld played the surly butler.• The door at the end of the room opened swiftly and the butler appeared.• The head of the staff was the butler, of course, a Mr Devenport.• The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed.Origin butler (1200-1300) Old French bouteillier “bottle-carrier”, from bouteille; → BOTTLE1
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