clubbish

English

Etymology

From club +‎ -ish.

Adjective

clubbish (comparative more clubbish, superlative most clubbish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
    • 1599, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes:
      For had not ſhe bene mercifull, my ſhip had ruſht on Rocks,
      And ſo decayed amids the ſtormes, through force of clubbiſh knocks
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a club (social establishment).
    • 2009, Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life‎[1]:
      She remembered a long-ago dinner they shared at Chasen's, one of Hollywood's most clubbish and exclusive restaurants […]
  3. Disposed to club together.
    Synonym: clubby
    • 1978, Skiing, volume 30, number 5, page 68:
      Some of the Centered Workshops get very clubbish, even encounter-groupish, I was told, and some don't. Ours didn't, although we certainly had a good time together.
    • 2010, Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, page 168:
      A clubbish man, Duyckinck liked to discuss his plans for the Libraries with his close circle of friends, two of whom […] he hoped to enlist as contributors to the American Library.
    • 2019, Robert Sawyer, Shakespeare Between the World Wars: The Anglo-American Sphere, page 196:
      […] the "bon vivants of a 1930's clubbish set" […]

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