Definitions
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- adjective Typical of a perfect
servant , valet, or butler.
Etymologies
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From Jeeves, famous valet from the stories of P. G. Wodehouse.
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Examples
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But Only Joking has the light heart which can be revealed at the further end of a literary career: it's a caper, one involving a Braque worth £4m, a baron, artists, con-artists, a supposed assassin who used to be a clown, a woman everyone is trying to seduce, a desperate ex-wife anxious about being disinherited, and a mysterious Jeevesian chauffeur who may or may not be manipulating everyone and everything to his own ends (at one point he even says: "I endeavour to give satisfaction").
Only Joking by Gabriel Josipovici – review Nicholas Lezard 2010
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