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  • verb neologism, rare To be or act as a butler.

Etymologies

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Back-formation from butler. Compare bottle (v).

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Examples

  • "One more butler crack and I'm gonna 'butle' my foot off in yo 'a —, I know that ..."

    The Messenger, Chapter 2 2010

  • I realize it's meant as a put down (it's not a butle point), but it always says something about the person making the insult, the way in which they actually say it.

    George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate 2009

  • Chapter 2 hape e fana ka di tsela tsa ho kenyeletsa hanyane (butle) - (phasing in) ha ditulo tse neng di le kantle ho category e lekanang le dilemo tse nne.

    SPEECH BY MR S MSHUDULU, ANC MP DURING THE PROPERTY RATES BILL DEBATE 2004

  • So I looked around my house to see the things I had started and hadn't finished and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of shhhardnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of vodka, a pockage of Prunglies, the mainder of bot Prozie and Valum scriptins, the res of the chesescke an a box a chocolets.

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  • "Well, if you want to go back to being my butle -"

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

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  • v. what butlers do. Probably a back-formation.

    July 14, 2008

  • I think the commonly accepted back-formation from butler is buttle. For two reasons:

    buttle is listed in several of the dictionaries included at the OneLook site; butle is not listed.

    By analogy with suttle and sutler.

    July 14, 2008

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    July 15, 2008