buttle
/ˈbʌt(ə)l
/verb [no object] humorous
Work as a butler: there is no one today worth buttling for...
- We got used to having our butler, Kathy, press our clothes and bring us poolside drinks, and wondered how we had ever lived without being buttled.
- When she conducts an ad hoc job interview on Powell, she asks him ‘Do you buttle?’
- I know all about butlers and the fine art of buttling.
Origin
Mid 19th century: back-formation from butler.
Rhymes
- play away
- playback
- playback singer
- play ball
- playbill
- playboat
- playboater
- playboating
- play bone
- playbook
- play both ends against the middle
- playbox
- playboy
- playboyish
- playboyishness
- playboyism
- playbroker
- playbus
- play by one's own rules
- play-by-play
- play by the rules
- playcalling
- play-card
- play catch-up
- play centre