butlership

noun

Etymology

From Middle English buttlershipe, equivalent to butler + -ship.

  1. inherited from buttlershipe

Definitions

  1. The rank, office, or position of a butler.

    • A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA