butler

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but·ler /ˈbʌtlə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  BODHthe main male servant of a house 男管家，仆役长

Examples from the Corpus

butler• 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

but·ler nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus main of house a the servant male

Butler

I

Butler, Rhett /ret/
the main male character in the novel Gone with the Wind. In the film of this book, Rhett Butler was played by Clark Gable, and he is remembered especially for saying to Scarlett O'Hara ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!’

II

Butler, Rob‧ert O‧len /ˌrɒbət ˈəʊlən $ ˌrɑːbərt-/
(1945–) a US writer who was a soldier during the Vietnam war. Many of his novels are about living in a foreign country and Butler often writes about Vietnamese people who are living in the US. His novels include The Alleys of Eden, Tabloid Dreams, and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993.

butler
but‧ler /ˈbʌtlə $ -ər/ noun [countable]the main male servant of a house

but·lerBrE /ˈbʌtlə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌtlər/ 🔊 nounthe main male servant in a large house 男管家