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Definition of Clubbish
1. Adjective. Effusively sociable. "We got rather clubby"
Definition of Clubbish
1. a. Rude; clownish.
Definition of Clubbish
1. Adjective. (obsolete) rude; clownish ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Disposed to club together. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clubbish
1. clubby [adj] - See also: clubby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clubbish
Literary usage of Clubbish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"... and unmingled) maketh the matter, which of itself is very base and clubbish,
to appear, shall I say, tolerable ; nay, rather commendable and effectual. ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"What care I for waking a sort of clubbish louts ? RAGAN. And I speak of Rebecca
your mother, our dame. ESAU. Tut, I pass not, whether she do me praise or ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1858)
"It had hair on the head, and the hinder parts, seen sometimes above the water,
seemed clubbish, short-legged, and short-footed, with ane tail. ..."
4. Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts by Andrew Lang (1903)
"... and unmingled) maketh the matter, which of itself is very base and clubbish,
to appear, shall I say, tolerable ; nay, rather commendable and effectual. ..."
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