clubby

[ kluhb-ee ]

adjective

, club·bi·er, club·bi·est.

1. characteristic of a club:

   The room had a warm, clubby atmosphere.

2. very friendly; intimate; chummy:

   He became clubby with the bartender, who slipped him many free drinks.

3. socially exclusive; cliquish:

   Their group is very clubby and unfriendly.

4. inclined to join clubs.

clubby

/ ˈklʌbɪ /

adjective

1. sociable, esp effusively so
2. exclusive or cliquish

Derived Forms

• ˈclubbily, adverb

Other Words From

• clubbi·ly adverb
• clubbi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of clubby¹

First recorded in 1855–60; club + -y ¹

Example Sentences

It was difficult, she said, for “your average resistance tweeter” to dig in and see which candidates had a shot — or which candidates did have a shot, but were being sidelined for sexist or clubby reasons.

From Washington Post

Doherty is part of a surge young women from Generation Z, the post-Millennial demographic, born between 1997 to 2012, who have broken into the clubby world of venture capital over the past year or so.

From Washington Post

Beute — whose ordeal triggered some of the events that followed — said he believes fallout from the case could force a reckoning for the lax oversight and clubby nature of Florida’s political system.

From Washington Post

Fukuda said she was disturbed by the way the decision to replace Mori with Kawabuchi was apparently made behind closed doors, in the typically clubby way that excludes women.

From Washington Post

That creates its own clubby inefficiencies and unexamined corruption.

From Time

GLOBAL FRATERNITY The Mostly Male Face of Davos The World Economic Forum is like a fraternity—loud, clubby, and male.

From The Daily Beast

But here we have the original home that used "Sandstorm" for clubby Christmas light display in 2006.

From The Daily Beast

Gavin previously asserted that Reliable Sources had a "clubby" atmosphere and repeatedly uses a select few Beltway guests.

From The Daily Beast

They're the pleasantest people in Three Meadows and we're very clubby.

From Project Gutenberg

The party addressed didn't look very clubby, but she was too polite to pull the cut direct.

From Project Gutenberg

We could of talked to plenty o' people here, all right; they were as clubby a gang as I ever seen.

From Project Gutenberg

It was only a pleasant clubby discussion of the problem of Jim's and Charity's innocence that delayed the jury's verdict.

From Project Gutenberg

An' it's too broad an' clubby f'r a grizzly, an' the claws are too long f'r the length of the foot.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• affable
• affectionate
• amiable
• amicable
• attentive
• beneficial
• chummy
• cordial
• familiar
• favorable
• good
• helpful
• loving
• loyal
• neighborly
• peaceful
• receptive
• sympathetic
• welcoming