Butlerlike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a butler.

    "Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father."

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"Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father."

Etymology

From butler + -like.

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