Etymology

clubby

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Today it means: Congenial; welcoming people as guests. Full definition →

English club ← Middle English clubbe ← Old Norse klubba
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*klumpô
  2. Old Norseklubba
  3. Middle Englishclubbe
  4. Englishclub
  5. English todayclubby

From club + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.