butler

From Middle English butler, butlere, boteler, botelere, from Old French buttiler, butiller, boteillier (“officer in charge of wine”), from Medieval Latin botellārius, equivalent to bottle +‎ -er.^[1] Piecewise doublet of bottler.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: bŭtʹ-lər, IPA^(key): /ˈbʌt.lɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌtlə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: but‧ler

butler (plural butlers)

1. A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
2. The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
   • 1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:

     “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"

3. A valet, a male personal attendant.

• footman

• butt (large cask)

butler (third-person singular simple present butlers, present participle butlering, simple past and past participle butlered)

1. To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

• turbel

Borrowed from English butler.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏt.lər/

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• Hyphenation: but‧ler

butler m (plural butlers, diminutive butlertje n)

1. a butler (chief male servant of a household; valet; booze manservant)

butler c

1. a butler (chief male servant, personal attendant)

Chiefly of butlers in England. See also betjänt.

• butler in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• butler in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• butler in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)