a. [f. CLUB sb. + -ISH.]
1. Resembling, or suggesting, a club; clumsy.
1515. Barclay, Egloges, III. (1570), B vj/4. His clubbishe feete.
1565–84. Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Cala, A big clubbishe staffe.
1825–79. Jamieson, Clubbish, clumsy, heavy.
2. Clownish, boorish, rough, rude. Obs. exc. dial.
1530. Palsgr., 307/2. Clobysshe boystous onweldy, lourt.
1563. B. Googe, Eglogs (Arb.), 69. Clubbish hands of crabbed Clowns.
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 143. A mean man, and of a clubbish nature.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., Clubbish, incomis, rudis.
1880. W. Cornw. Gloss., Clubbish, rough and brutal.
3. Disposed or addicted to clubs.
1848. Tait’s Mag., XV. 328/2. They were quiet stay-at-home men … none of them clubbish.
1868. Miss Braddon, Lady’s Mile, xxvi. 293. Wilmot—that young clubbish man.
Hence † Clubbishly adv., rudely, clownishly.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 699. One Ihon Skudder answered hym clubbishly.
