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  • verb Present participle of butler.

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Examples

  • Don't think I haven't noticed you butlering around McCrap in the background of every news/photo op.

    Lieberman attacks Obama over foreign policy 2008

  • By this, I mean to say that I will make you whiskey sours at 3AM, drive you around town and eventually ditch you to shag Aunt May . . . but only after butlering for many years.

    IRON MAN #126 Marvel Comics, 1979 David Campbell 2007

  • And though Mr. and Mrs. Townsend put great trust in their servant Jerry as to the ordinary duties of gardening, driving, and butlering, they would not knowingly trust him with a word of their habitual conversation about the things around them.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • The rusticity of the function was altogether confined to the benches on which we sat and the tables from which we ate -- the butlering was for the most part urban.

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • And though Mr. and Mrs. Townsend put great trust in their servant Jerry as to the ordinary duties of gardening, driving, and butlering, they would not knowingly trust him with a word of their habitual conversation about the things around them.

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Without it, Shakespeare's Henry plays would be little more than strident nationalism in fact Hal owes more to that prince than to the Hal in "Infinite Jest", "The Remains of the Day" a long lesson in butlering and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" a simple Russian example of pre-Babbittry.

    NYT > Home Page By JOSH EMMONS 2011

  • Having already been ordered onto butlering duties by Mrs Marco for the in-laws 'New Year Lunch treat, I couldn't get to the match either.

    Chelsea Blog 2010

  • Having already been ordered onto butlering duties by Mrs Marco for the in-laws 'New Year Lunch treat, I couldn't get to the match either.

    Chelsea Blog 2010

  • The most noteworthy thing about that fact is that Larry Sabato has a spokesman, which is kind of like a butler having another, useless butler, who does nothing because the first butler won't stop butlering.

    Gawker 2009

  • “Don’t tell Mrs. Blanck I don’t know proper butlering,” he said.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

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