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Meaning of clubbish | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a club (social establishment).
  3. Disposed to club together.

Examples

“For had not ſhe bene mercifull, my ſhip had ruſht on Rocks, And ſo decayed amids the ſtormes, through force of clubbiſh knocks”
“She remembered a long-ago dinner they shared at Chasen's, one of Hollywood's most clubbish and exclusive restaurants […]”
“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.”
“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.”
“[…] the "bon vivants of a 1930's clubbish set" […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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