Word.ws English Dictionary

underbutler

underbutler noun: a subordinate or assistant butler.

Noun

underbutler (plural underbutlers)

  1. A subordinate or assistant butler.
    • Mr. Britling had to go to the house for instructions, and guided by the underbutler found Lady Homartyn hiding away in the walled Dutch garden behind the dairy.1916, HG Wells, Mr Britling Sees it Through, London: Hogarth Press, published 1985, page 171

Forms of underbutler

pluralunderbutlers

Origin of underbutler

From under- + butler.

Questions about underbutler

What does underbutler mean?
Underbutler means a subordinate or assistant butler.
What part of speech is underbutler?
Underbutler is a noun.
What is the plural of underbutler?
The plural of underbutler is underbutlers.

Words near underbutler in the dictionary

  1. underbushes
  2. underbushing
  3. underbust
  4. underbusts
  5. underbusy
  6. underbutler
  7. underbutlers
  8. underbutt
  9. underbutts
  10. underbuy
  11. underbuying

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: underbutler (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underbutler.wav.

Cite this entry: “underbutler.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/underbutler. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.