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cliquish

[klee-kish, klik-ish]

adjective

associating exclusively with the members of one's own clique; clannish.

tending to divide into cliques: a cliquish neighborhood.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a clique: narrow, cliquish notions about art.

Origin:
1850–55; clique + -ish¹

Related forms

cli·quish·ly, adverb

cli·quish·ness, noun

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clique (kliːk, klɪk)

—n
	a small, exclusive group of friends or associates

[C18: from French, perhaps from Old French: latch, from cliquer to click; suggestive of the necessity to exclude nonmembers]

'cliquish

—*adj*

'cliquishly

—*adv*

'cliquishness

—n

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