| 释义 |
clubbable, clubable, a.|ˈklʌbəb(ə)l|
[f. club n. + -able.]
Having such qualities as fit one to be a member of a club; sociable.
1783Johnson in Boswell 4 Dec. note, Boswell (said he) is a very clubable man. [Johnson is said to have used unclubable sometime earlier: see unclubbable a.] 1863Galton in Reader 26 Dec. 767 Two species of animals do not consider one another companionable, or clubable, unless their behaviour and their persons are reciprocally agreeable. 1883M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 75 The public opinion of the University..had come to regard a college as a club, into which you should get only clubbable men.
Hence clubbability. (colloq.)
1879Daily Tel. 17 Oct., At that stage of clubbability the Parisian has not..yet arrived. 1886World 24 Feb. 13 The jollier view of clubbability, its rights and its privileges. |