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Jeeves

Overview page. Subjects: Literature.

In many of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, the omniscient and resourceful valet.

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Jeeves

in New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary

January 2012; p ublished online May 2013 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 83 words.

• haves • calves, scarves • headscarves • mooncalves • Graves • beeves, eaves, Greaves, Jeeves, leaves, Reeves,

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Jeeves

in Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes

January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 83 words.

• haves • calves, scarves • headscarves • mooncalves • Graves • beeves, eaves, Greaves, Jeeves, leaves, Reeves,

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By Jeeves

Edited by Colin Larkin.

in Encyclopedia of Popular Music

January 2006; p ublished online January 2009 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 6 words.

(see Jeeves)See also Jeeves.

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Ask Jeeves

Edited by Darrel Ince.

in A Dictionary of the Internet

P ublished online January 2009 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Computer Networking and Communications. 59 words.

One of the most popular *search engines that uses free format text to frame a query. It provides an interesting facility, in that questions being posed to Jeeves by other users are...

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Jeeves, Prof. Malcolm Alexander

in Who's Who

P ublished online December 2007 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Education. 404 words.

CBE 1992; FMedSci, FBPsS; PPRSE

Born 16 Nov. 1926; s of Alderman Alexander Frederic Thomas Jeeves and...

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Jeeves, William John

in Who Was Who

P ublished online December 2007 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Law; Criminology and Criminal Justice. 95 words.

CBE 1920

Born y s of William Jeeves and Anne, d of John Shilcock; m 1896, Elisabeth Blanche (d 1926), d of late W. Blinkhorn, JP, Sutton...

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Jeeves

Overview page. Subjects: Literature.

In many of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, the omniscient and resourceful valet.

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Jeeves

Overview page. Subjects: Music.

This show is the skeleton in the cupboard of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful composer of stage musicals during the past 20 years. Most of the creative giants of ...

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Jeeves

Edited by John Ayto and Ian Crofton.

in Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable

January 2009; p ublished online January 2011 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: History of English. 113 words.

Bertie Wooster's dignified and loyal butler in the books by P.G. Wodehouse. He is as intelligent as his

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Jeeves

Edited by Susie Dent.

in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

January 2012; p ublished online January 2013 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: History of English. 71 words.

Bertie wooster’s dignified and loyal servant in the books by P.G. Wodehouse. He is as intelligent as his

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Jeeves

Edited by Colin Larkin.

in Encyclopedia of Popular Music

January 2006; p ublished online January 2009 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 909 words.

This show is the skeleton in the cupboard of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful composer of stage musicals

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Jeeves

Edited by Margaret Drabble, Jenny Stringer and Daniel Hahn.

in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Literary Studies (British and Irish). 13 words.

in many of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, the omniscient and resourceful valet.

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Jeeves

Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates and Peter McClure.

in The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

November 2016; p ublished online November 2016 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Names Studies. 219 words.

Variants: Geeves, Geaves, Jeves

• Current frequencies: GB 898, Ireland 5 • GB frequency 1881: 384 • Main

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Jeeves

in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

January 2005; p ublished online January 2006 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: History of English. 16 words.

the resourceful and influential valet of Bertie Wooster in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse.

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Jeeves, Percy (1888–1916), cricketer

Gerald M. D. Howat.

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Sports and Outdoor Recreation. 512 words.

Jeeves, Percy (1888–1916), cricketer, was born on 5 March 1888 at Common Side, Soothill Nether, near Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the son of Edwin Jeeves, railway porter, and his wife, Nancy...

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Ask Jeeves

Darrel Ince.

in A Dictionary of the Internet

P ublished online January 2013 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Computer Networking and Communications. 48 words.

One of the most popular *search engines that uses free format text to frame a query. It provides an

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Jeeves [Lit.]

Andrew Delahunty and Sheila Dignen.

in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion

January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 165 words.

The resourceful and unflappable valet of Bertie *Wooster in a series of novels by P. G. Wodehouse. According to

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Horder, Thomas Jeeves, first Baron Horder (1871–1955), physician

L. J. Witts.

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Medicine and Health. 1404 words.

Horder, Thomas Jeeves, first Baron Horder (1871–1955), physician, was born on 7 January 1871 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, the fourth and youngest child of Albert Horder, a successful draper and...

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