clubbist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

club +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

clubbist (plural clubbists)

  1. A member of a club; one who frequents clubs.
    • 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
      It is clear , by the applauses bestowed on what the author calls this new constitution , a mixed oligarchy , that the difference between the Clubbists and the old adherents to the Monarchy of this Country is hardly worth a scuffle.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19:
      The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess - in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes.