clubbish
clubbish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
Adjective
clubbish (comparative more clubbish, superlative most clubbish)
- 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 knocks1599, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes
- For had not ſhe bene mercifull, my ſhip had ruſht on Rocks,
- 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 […]2009, Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life
- 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.1978, Skiing, volume 30, number 5, page 68
- 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.2010, Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, page 168
- Synonyms:
- clubby
Synonyms of clubbish
Forms of clubbish
| comparative | more clubbish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most clubbish |
Origin of clubbish
From club + -ish.
Words formed from clubbish
Questions about clubbish
- What does clubbish mean?
- Clubbish means resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
- What part of speech is clubbish?
- Clubbish is an adjective.
Words near clubbish in the dictionary
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