homegrownadj.n.
/ˌhəʊmˈɡrəʊn/, U.S. /ˈˌhoʊmˈɡroʊn/ A. adj.
1. Of produce: raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > made, grown, etc., at home
home1552
homemade1565
homegrown1645
home-cooked1811
homebuilt1819
house-made1836
1645 T. Johnson Disc. consisting Motives 3 She [sc. Britain] beates a generall Trade, and makes rich returnes with her owne home-growne goods.
1730 A. Brice Freedom 10 Foreign Berry (or, perchance, in lieu Thereof, Steed's home-grown Bean adust).
1766 London Chron. 27 May 506/1 None are to be admitted but such as shall be dress'd in a gown of their own spinning, made of home-grown flax.
1827 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 7 173 They consume home-grown corn.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. p. xxxviii The independent production of home-grown wool.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 407/1 Butchers have palmed off upon their customers imported fresh meat as home-grown.
1935 Discovery June 162/1 The Great War undoubtedly had a great influence in fostering the canning of home-grown foods.
1977 Texas Monthly June 80/1 Liquid fertilizers sprayed on homegrown marijuana may cause cancer.
2005 Woman & Home July 101/1 Home-grown basil is more pungent and lasts longer than shop-bought.
2. In extended use: coming from one's own home, neighbourhood, or country; local, native; self-produced.
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the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective]
inbornc1000
theodiscc1000
i-cundeOE
landisha1300
kindc1325
denizen1483
kindly born1483
native1488
naturally born1523
naturala1533
home-bred?1560
natural1574
home-born1577
homeling1577
natural-born1583
land-born1589
self-bred1590
self-born1597
indigene1598
land-breda1599
vernaculous1606
kindly1609
inbred1625
terrigenist1631
native-born1645
indigenous1646
indigenary1651
indigenital1656
aboriginal1698
own-born1699
indigenal1725
homegrown1737
terrigenous1769
indigenate1775
1737 A. Hill in J. Hewitt Tutor for Beaus Prol. Oppos'd, to this Extreme, our Home-grown shoot, Whose Sense wants Breeding, thinks himself, to Brute.
1841 Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 58/2 Her affection for her husband extends to his house, to every branch of his family, to his home-grown servants, [etc.].
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 146 While his wild home-grown Gargantuisms went on.
1895 Cricket Handbk. 31 It is sincerely to be hoped that the means may yet be found of recruiting the eleven from home-grown cricketers.
a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 71 Why buy Bret Harte, I asked, when I was prepared to supply home-grown fiction on the hoof?
1959 Times 31 Mar. 11/1 Yet there was nothing unprofessional about the timing, staging, or lighting of even these most home-grown numbers.
2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Oct. b5/3 Investigators are aware of the possibility that a homegrown terrorist..might be behind one or more of the [anthrax] attacks.
B. n.
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a. That which is homegrown; (with plural agreement) homegrown people or things collectively.
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1829 Free Trade Advocate 22 Aug. 116/1 The imported is increased by a greater amount than the home-grown is diminished.
1864 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 4 Oct. 277/2 The home-grown are far more juicy and fleshy than those in the open fields.
1904 Canad. Horticulturist Dec. 545/1 In competition with the vegetables from the United States the home grown have the preference every time.
1995 D. Marc Bonfire of Humanities 96 The home-grown in American literature, art, and culture was not to be measured by..traditional European forms and standards.
b. Locally cultivated marijuana.
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1970 Arizona Republic 12 Dec. 45/1 ‘Home-Grown’ [sc. the name of a rock band] now refers to more than the obvious meaning of backyard cannabis sativa—marijuana.]
1973 Corbin (Kentucky) Times-Tribune 7 Oct. 10/1 For those on limited budgets there's a plentiful supply of the homegrown.
1992 E. A. Proulx Postcards iii. xxxiv. 194 ‘Want some of this?’ Jase, shaking the homegrown into a Zigzag paper and twisting it up.
2003 P. Collings in D. Chislett Urban 03 120 A five-litre box of red wine, inside of which was stashed a bag of ‘homegrown’.
2. As a count noun: a homegrown person or thing.
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1894 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 23 Nov. The game of football between the Warren and Jamestown High School Juniors Saturday afternoon resulted in favor of the ‘home-growns’ 18-4.
1910 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Nov. 547 ‘Will you try one of my home-growns, Mr. Fessenden?’ he proffered. ‘That tobacco was raised on my own plantation.’
1981 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Feb. Cacti..took on a new splendor... Even humble inch-high homegrowns look impressive when they are seen in trays of thousands.
2007 New Yorker 22 Jan. 51/3 Gadahn is the ultimate ‘homegrown’—a term used by scholars and government officials for Western citizens who are..willing to attack their own societies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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