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Adjective: clubby (clubbier,clubbiest)  klú-bee
Usage: informal
  1. Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
    "The group did not consider themselves to be clubby or unfriendly";
    - clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby [informal]
     
  2. Characteristic of or behaving like an exclusive social club; tending to form cliques
    "we got rather clubby";
    - clubbish [informal]

Derived forms: clubbier, clubbiest

See also: private, sociable

Encyclopedia: Clubby