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English
Etymology
From un- + clubbable.
Adjective
unclubbable (comparative more unclubbable, superlative most unclubbable)
- Not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable.
- Antonym: clubbable
1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95:‘But Sir John was a most unclubable man!’
2003, Joseph Epstein, Snobbery: The American Version, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 141:I have to conclude that I am unclubbable. Unlike John O'Hara, who kept embossed seals of his various clubs on his gold cigarette case, I apparently take no continuing pleasure in clubs nor any real satisfaction in the thought that I have been asked to join a few of them.
2012, Barbara Black, A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland, Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 219:For much of the nineteenth century, conventional wisdom deemed women intractably unclubbable. The standard arguments in circulation at the time often began by pointing to women's “natural” inclination not to be social.
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