clubbable
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
clubbable (comparative more clubbable, superlative most clubbable)
- (British) Sociable.
- Antonym: unclubbable
- 1886, Punch[1], volume 91, page 249:
- Would not Jack Johnson be cut nowadays by even the rowdiest of Stock Exchange young men, and be voted a cad by every clubbable man above the class of ’ARRY? For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.
- 2012, J. Clark, H. Erskine-Hill, The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson, Springer, →ISBN:
- Those who have never opened Hawkins’ Life know Johnson was a ‘clubbable’ man and that Hawkins was an ‘unclubbable’ man: such is the influence of Boswell's Life– and its editors.
Further reading edit
- “clubbable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.