CLUBBY

clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby

(adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

clubbish, clubby

(adjective) effusively sociable; “a clubbish set”; “we got rather clubby”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

clubby (comparative clubbier, superlative clubbiest)

Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse: congenial and exclusive.

(informal) Fond of frequenting nightclubs.

Usage notes

In the sense of “resembling or suggestive of a social club”, the emphasis can be more on the congeniality (friendly, treating all guests as welcome insiders: compare family diner) or on the exclusivity; compare cliquey.

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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