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clubbish

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Etymology

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Fromclub +‎-ish.

Adjective

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clubbish (comparativemoreclubbish,superlativemostclubbish)

  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 ofclubbiſh 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 mostclubbish and exclusive restaurants[]
  3. Disposed toclub together.
    Synonym:clubby
    • 1978,Skiing, volume30, number 5, page68:
      Some of the Centered Workshops get veryclubbish, 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, page168:
      Aclubbish 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, page196:
      [] the "bon vivants of a 1930'sclubbish set"[]

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