clubbable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of over-dressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'apéritif."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *klumpô Old Norse klubbabor. Middle English clubbe English club Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English clubbable From club + -able.
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more clubbable (comparative)
most clubbable (superlative)