Definitions for clannish

clannish clan·nish

Spelling: [klan-ish]
IPA: /ˈklæn ɪʃ/

Clannish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in clannish (achilnns).

Definitions for clannish

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a clan.
  2. inclined to associate exclusively with the members of one's own group; cliquish:
  3. imbued with or influenced by the sentiments, prejudices, or the like, of a clan.

Origin of clannish

First recorded in 1770-80; clan + -ish1

Examples for clannish

Norfolk men are clannish, and Horbury's evidence carried weight.

The contracting of a marriage is not so much an individual as it is a clannish affair.

But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother.

In the first place this interesting bird is a clannish fellow.

The one were as turbulent, clannish, fierce, and barbarous as the other.

You haven't been up to your usual form of futile and clannish conversation.

The burying-places in the East are clannish or church possessions.

The higher type of man is firm but not quarrelsome; sociable, but not clannish.

"Then the Highlanders are as clannish as ever," cried the General.

They are national in form and colour, but clannish in opinion.

Word Value for clannish
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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