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buttled

buttled is the simple past and past participle of buttle.

Meaning of buttle

Verb

buttle (third-person singular simple present buttles, present participle buttling, simple past and past participle buttled)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard) To serve as or perform the duties of a butler.
    • ...even the stoic and impeccable maid of Miss Ethelwyn Arthur-Jones, who ‘buttled’ as well as the most time-honoured butler.1909, J. T. Grein, Sunday Times

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Questions about buttled

What is buttled the simple past and past participle of?
Buttled is the simple past and past participle of buttle.

Words near buttled in the dictionary

  1. buttkicker
  2. buttkickers
  3. buttkisser
  4. buttkissers
  5. buttle
  6. buttled
  7. buttlegger
  8. buttleggers
  9. buttlegging
  10. Buttleman
  11. Buttlemans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttled (page history and authors); buttle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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