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clubbable

adj

Etymology

From club + -able.

  1. derived from *klumpô✻
  2. derived from klubba
  3. inherited from clubbe
  4. suffixed as clubbable — “club + able”

Definitions

  1. Sociable.

    • Those who have never opened Hawkins’ Life know Johnson was a ‘clubbable’ man and that Hawkins was an ‘unclubbable’ man: such is the influence of Boswell's Life– and its editors.
    • It's usually only men who are described as ‘clubbable’, and before I knew what that actually meant I agreed with it.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA