clubbedadj.
/klʌbd/ I. From the noun.† 3. Clumsy, rude. Cf. club n. 1e, clubbish adj.
1.
a. Shaped like a club, thickened at or toward the end, knobbed; clavate, claviform.
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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > thickened at end
clubbedc1386
clavated1728
butted1801
clavate1803
claviform1805
pedate1866
butt-ended1869
butt-headed1891
c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. 10 She bryngeth me forth the grete clobbed [v.r. clubbed, clobbet] staues.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 84 Clubbyd staffe, fustis.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiv Hercules..with his stobburne clobbyd mase.
1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 219 Their antennæ are clubbed.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 24 Two sets of players are arranged with bent or clubbed sticks.
b. as a defect or distortion of the foot or fingers; also (obsolete) of a person: Club-footed, etc.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of fingers, toes, or foot
clubbeda1509
clumped1709
reel-footed1792
polydactyl1827
polydactylous1858
a1509 in Gardner Lett. Richard III & Henry VII A clobbed fote.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xiii. 30 Love maks a couard kene; Love maks the clubbit clene.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xvi. 90 Your fingers so clubbed at the ends.
1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Clubbed fingers, a term applied to the thin fingers with thickened ends, which are often seen in phthisical persons.
2. Lumpy, massively built, thick-set.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > of build of horse > sturdy or stout-framed
clubbed1695
1695 London Gaz. No. 3143/4 Stolen..one black clubbed Gelding.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3850/4 Stolen or strayed..a clubbed bob-tail'd black Mare..a little low Back'd.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 84 Clubbyd, or boystows, rudis.
1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 111 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. lxxxviii That wone clubbed cobbe shoulde not so encroche An hundred mennys lyuynges.
II. From the verb.
4. Formed into a club or knot; clenched.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > [adjective] > clenched
writhenc1400
clincheda1547
steeked1565
griped1583
clubbed1625
clenched1708
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. vii. iii. 982 The Pongoes..so beate them with their clubbed fists.
1885 Leisure Hour Jan. 34/1 The cultivation of ‘clubbed pigtails’.
5. Turned into or used as a club.
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1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 189 Coming close up to the Teeth of one another with the clubbed Musquet.
1888 G. A. Henty Cornet of Horse x. 102 Bayonets and clubbed muskets were the weapons on both sides.
6. Combined in a mass; thrown into a confused and disorganized mass, as a clubbed battalion.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > agglomerated or conglomerated
conglomerate1572
inglomerated1592
conglomerated1656
agglomerated1726
agglomerate1805
clubbed1821
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [adjective] > formed or forming in battle array > not
unarrayedc1340
unmarshalled1642
unregimented1673
clubbed1876
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 384/2 The waves of the blown Baltic with their clubbed sounds.
1876 World V. No. 105. 11 Does not marshal his incidents very adroitly, they assume sometimes something of a ‘clubbed’ formation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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