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. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) 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" […]
  4. (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Rustic and uncultured.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clubbish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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