Crossword clues for buttle
Wiktionary
vb. To serve as or perform the duties of a butler.
Wikipedia
Buttle may refer to:
- Buttle (surname)
- Buttle, Gotland, a settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland
- Buttle Lake, a lake on Vancouver Island in Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- Buttle UK, a children's charity based in the United Kingdom
Buttle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cecil Buttle (1906–1988), English cricketer
- Frank Buttle (1878–1953), English social worker
- Greg Buttle (born 1954), retired American football linebacker
- Jeffrey Buttle (born 1982), Canadian figure skater
- Keith Buttle (1900–1973), New Zealand businessman and politician
- Robert D. Buttle (died 1901), the sole Brooklyn survivor of the Marine battalion which took part in the Mexican–American War
- Steve Buttle (1953–2012), English footballer and manager
- Thomas Buttle (1980), Born in Wexford (Oulart). Irish footballer who played for Sydney FC in 2004. Founder of Interbanksoccer in Dublin. Lived in New York in 2002 for 1 year and played for New York Red Bulls.
Fictional characters:
- Buttle family, characters from the 1985 film Brazil
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.