home-livingadj.
/ˈhəʊmˌlɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌlɪvɪŋ/ That lives at home or in domestic surroundings.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > dwelling at home
home-keepinga1616
stay-at-home1806
home-living1828
1828 Exeter Itinerary 153 Brown, John, Esq. Home-living, Heavitree.
1883 T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 266 Home-living boys..are treasures to the employer of agricultural labour.
1920 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 34 245 The home-living daughter's final share of household costs will read: For food and housing $280 [etc.].
1979 H. Fierstein Widows & Children First! in Torch Song Trilogy 121 You've taken a punk kid who's spent the last three years on the streets..and turned him into a home-living, fun-loving, school-going teenager.
2000 H. Kröger & R. Honkanen in K. Obrant Managem. Fractures in Severely Osteoporotic Bone vii. 90 Incidence of injurious falls..is higher in the institutionalized than home-living elderly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1828- to give one a for instance
- to give one a gleek
- to give one a slampant
- to give one an inkling
- to give one an inkling of something
- to give one as good as he brings or one gets
- to give one fifteen, etc, and a bisque
- to give one furiously to think
- to give one his kale through the reek
- to give one his own or his due
- to give one one's revenge
- to give one revenge
- to hit cross one over the thumbs
- to hit for six
- to hit for the cycle
- to hit home
- to hit in
- to hit in the eye
- to hit in the eyes
- to hit in the teeth with
- to hit it
- to hit it off
- to hit it on the button
- to hit it right on the button
- to hit off