1783. Johnson, in Boswell, 4 Dec. note. Boswell (said he) is a very clubable man. [Johnson is said to have used unclubable sometime earlier: cf. notes to edd. of Boswell an. 1764.]
1863. Galton, in Reader, 26 Dec., 767. Two species of animals do not consider one another companionable, or clubable, unless their behaviour and their persons are reciprocally agreeable.
1883. M. Pattison, Mem. (1885), 75. The public opinion of the University … had come to regard a college as a club, into which you should get only clubbable men.
Hence Clubbability. (colloq.)
1879. Daily Tel., 17 Oct., 5/2. At that stage of clubbability the Parisian has not, it may be presumed, yet arrived.
1886. World, 24 Feb., 13. The jollier view of clubbability, its rights and its privileges.
