单词 | homebody |
释义 | homebodyn. Originally U.S. A person who prefers staying at home to going out or travelling. Also in extended use of an animal. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > attachment to home life > person house dove1579 houseling1598 house bird1601 home-sittera1657 housekeepera1741 Sunday man1769 homester1819 homebird1821 homebody1821 stay-at-home1836 homeboy1847 homegirl1847 stay-putter1927 1821 J. F. Cooper Spy I. xi. 175 Marry him I don't think I will—unless he becomes steadier and more of a homebody. 1886 Peterson's Mag. Jan. 74/2 She has been a home-body ever since I can remember, and never seems to have visitors. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror ii. 32 He said this girl was one of those domestic girls, a little home-body, and might be leaving the party any moment now. 1959 News Chron. 12 Aug. 6/8 She liked to be a homebody and..lie with her head on her master's foot. 1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 24 A cellar never takes umbrage; It takes us as we are, explorers, homebodies. 2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad xxvii. 188 You'd rather play the faithful little wifey, what with the weaving and so on. Bad me, I could never do it, I'd die of boredom. But you were always such a homebody. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821 |
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