Meaning of clubbable | Babel Free

Definitions

Sociable.

British

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“It's usually only men who are described as ‘clubbable’, and before I knew what that actually meant I agreed with it.”

“In Burns's time, there were some well-known ‘clubbable men’: Smellie, Erskine and Parker were all boon companions.”

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