单词 | homegrowing |
释义 | homegrowingn. The action or activity of growing something at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country. Now: spec. the activity of growing one's own cannabis. ΚΠ 1741 Memorials & Characters 93 Content with home-bred Fare, home-growing and home-spun Manufacture. 1832 Lancaster Gaz. 22 Dec. 1/4 The badness of the season had destroyed the crops of our home-growing. 1888 Archaeologia 51 160 Charles was becoming alive to the fact that home-growing was materially affecting the Customs. 1917 Poultry Item Dec. 18/2 A food survey is now in progress to determine the maximum home-growing capacity of each county. 1969 C. Turner Family & Kinship Mod. Brit. v. 92 This has tended to discourage homegrowing of basic foodstuffs and home production of goods from raw materials. 2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 15 Wood also warned police will be tough on households found to be cultivating cannabis. She said: ‘Homegrowing has become more of an issue.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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