clubbish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 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. 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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