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ˈstay-at-ˌhome, a. and n.
[f. stay v.1]
A. adj. That stays at home, not given to travelling or to gadding abroad; hence untravelled. Also spec. avoiding going abroad on military service.
1806G. Pinckard Tour W. Indies III. 342 The extravagant alarm pictured by the fearful imaginations of stay-at-home travellers. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park v, A talking pretty young woman like Miss Crawford is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay-at-home man. 1819in Lady Morgan's Autobiog. (1859) 326, I went to bed most depressed, and in admiration of your stay-at-home wisdom. 1861O. W. Holmes Sweet Little Man 35 In the brigade of the Stay-at-Home Rangers Marches my corps. 1902Cornish Naturalist Thames 152 It is in the woods that the stay-at-home birds are most in evidence in winter. 1946W. S. Churchill Victory 78 You hear all this talk by the stay-at-home Left Wing intelligentsia that the soldiers will hold us guilty if we do not have a new world waiting for them on their return.
B. n.
a. One who stays at home, one not given to travelling or gadding abroad; spec. one who avoids going abroad on military service. Also transf.
1836Dickens Let. ? 27 Nov. (1965) I. 200 Mrs. Dickens is a great stay-at-home just now. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge i, Sixty-six years ago a vast number both of travellers and stay-at-homes were in this condition. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xv, If some of you young gentlemen would..go forth to find us stay-at-homes new markets for our ware. 1883A. Pinkerton Spy of Rebellion xxv. 499 Extravagant ideas of a struggle which should be ‘short, sharp and decisive’, were the only ones entertained by the great army of ‘stay at homes’. 1918Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 131/1 Students..accused as stay-at-homes, unwilling to fight and suffer for the Fatherland. 1949E. Hyams Grape Vine in England 143 Not by any means all the root-dwelling insects change into winged insects. The stay-at-homes winter among the roots of the vines. 1981A. Cooke in N.Y. Times Mag. 19 July 6/4 We..sent in ‘technicians’ and followed them up with a blood sacrifice, but burdened the stay-at-homes with no extra taxes.
b. A staying at home, spec. a strike.
1959[see neon world s.v. neon 3 a]. 1960Guardian 20 Apr. 18/1 They disagreed on whether the stay-at-home should be for a day or a week. 1976Times 24 Aug. 1/4 If today's stay-at-home is maintained..the organizers will have demonstrated that they are capable of arranging mass protests among urban blacks.
So also (nonce-words) stay-at-homeativeness, -itiveness (mimicking phrenological terms), stay-at-homeishness.
1818T. L. Peacock Maid Marian i, Domesticity, or as learned doctors call it—the faculty of stayathomeitiveness. 1826Westm. Rev. VI. 327 Their un-Italianized countrymen, who are endowed with Spurzheim's bump, denominated stayathomeativeness. 1880Daily Tel. 22 Sept., Our national tendency towards ‘stay-at-homeishness’. |