clubbish

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
8

Definition of clubbish

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
    “For had not ſhe bene mercifull, my ſhip had ruſht on Rocks, And ſo decayed amids the ſtormes, through force of clubbiſh knocks”
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adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
    “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).
    “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.
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “[…] the "bon vivants of a 1930's clubbish set" […]”

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Etymology

From club + -ish.

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