clubbish

comparative more clubbish · superlative most clubbish

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

   1599, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes

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 […]

   2009, Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life

3. Disposed to club together.

   […] the "bon vivants of a 1930's clubbish set" […]

   2019, Robert Sawyer, Shakespeare Between the World Wars: The Anglo-American Sphere, page 196

   2 more examples

   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