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CLUBBY (clubbier, clubbiest)
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, clubbiest Dictionary entry overview: What does clubby mean?
• CLUBBY (adjective)
The adjective CLUBBY has 2 senses:
1. effusively sociable
2. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Familiarity information: CLUBBY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: clubbiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Effusively sociable
Synonyms:
clubbish; clubby
Context example:
we got rather clubby
Similar:
sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Synonyms:
clannish; cliquish; clubby; snobbish; snobby
Similar:
private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)
Derivation:
club (a formal association of people with similar interests)
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