Only let out to act as senior servant

Usage examples of buttle.

He liked the food, he liked seeing his father buttle, and he liked these amazing freaks who were, it appeared, fellow-inmates with him of this highly desirable residence.

Here we are, qualified butler and housekeeper, and no one to buttle and housekeep for.

How dare they, he thought, fight their trivial buttles over which musicians would play at whose ball when four miles away men and women were struggling for their lives against an invisible slayer and the air dripped with the stink of corpses smoke, and death?

Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.

He used to follow him with his eyes as he buttled, like a cat watching a duck, as Anatole would say.

Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.

So this man was a butler, he had been born and bred a butler, he lived by buttling, a butler he would die.

He used to buttle for my father, sir, but got into trouble--some domestic unpleasantness, I believe--needed money, and raised a cheque.

Whatever buttling book he'd read, he'd skipped the section on closing doors, but it was a stout door and it stood up to it.

Amid exclamations of admiration we seated ourselves, and Gargery, in full buttling attire, poured the wine.

Oh, they could cook and dig and wash and footle and buttle and did it very well but could never quite get the hang of the serving mentality.