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butlerlike

butlerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a butler.

Adjective

butlerlike (comparative more butlerlike, superlative most butlerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a butler.
    • Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father.1917, P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim

Forms of butlerlike

comparativemore butlerlike
superlativemost butlerlike

Origin of butlerlike

From butler + -like.

Questions about butlerlike

What does butlerlike mean?
Butlerlike means resembling or characteristic of a butler.
What part of speech is butlerlike?
Butlerlike is an adjective.

Words near butlerlike in the dictionary

  1. butlerin
  2. butlering
  3. butlerite
  4. Butlerites
  5. butlerless
  6. butlerlike
  7. butlerly
  8. butlers
  9. Butlers Gorge
  10. butlers steak
  11. butlers' steak

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