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buttles

buttles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 buttles

What is buttles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Buttles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of buttle.

Words near buttles in the dictionary

  1. buttlegging
  2. Buttleman
  3. Buttlemans
  4. Buttler
  5. Buttlers
  6. buttles
  7. buttless
  8. buttlicker
  9. buttlickers
  10. buttlift
  11. buttlifts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttles (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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