English edit

Etymology edit

club +‎ -ish

Adjective edit

clubbish (comparative more clubbish, superlative most clubbish)

  1. Somewhat resembling a club.
    • 2009, Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life[1]:
      She remembered a long-ago dinner they shared at Chasen's, one of Hollywood's most clubbish and exclusive restaurant []
  2. (obsolete) rude; clownish
  3. (obsolete) Disposed to club together.
    a clubbish set

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clubbish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)