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. 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.
