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Except in years he was not young; he could not manage to be "clubable"; he was serious and awkward at a supper party; he was altogether without the effervescence which is necessary in order to avoid flatness.

Michael 1903

A "clubable" person (to use a word which Dr. Samuel Johnson invented but did not put into his dictionary) is one who is fit for the familiar give and take of club-life.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

In the case of Mars, they are probably very numerous; and, apart from the evidence of canals, the prevalent assumption that there are intelligent beings in that planet, seems to rest less upon probability than on a curiously imaginative extension of the gregarious sentiment, the chilly discomfort of mankind at the thought of being alone in the universe, and a hope that there may be conversable and 'clubable' souls nearer than the Dog-star.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

Boswell, however, was, as his proposer said, a thoroughly "clubable" man, and once a member, his good humour secured his popularity.

Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephen 1868

"clubable" man, and the tavern chair as the throne of human felicity, it should be remembered that there were no gentlemen's clubs in London in those days, hence groups of famous men met at the taverns.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

"clubable" man, yet he enjoyed the meetings in his still way, or he would never have come from Concord so regularly to attend them.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

A member of the Downtown, Union, Church, Columbia, Devon and Maidstone Clubs, clubable Phelan Beale was not amused.

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Above for your enjoyment, via Ridiculous Politics, is the famous Calamity Clegg dossier from clubable Buff Huhne.

Libdemologists: Hoaxer Leech Finally Makes His Mind Up 2007

Above for your enjoyment, via Ridiculous Politics, is the famous Calamity Clegg dossier from clubable Buff Huhne.

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If asked to state the merits of the candidate, he summed them up in an indefinite but comprehensive word of his own coining; he was clubable.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004