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home-made, a.
[f. home n. 15 b and adv. 8 b.]
1. Made at home or for home consumption; of domestic manufacture. Also absol., and ellipt. as n.
a1659Cleveland Poems, Sanbourn 35 Loaves of Home⁓made Bread. 1768Boswell Corsica iii. (ed. 2) 193 None but the very peasants wear home-made cloth. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneer xi. (1869) 47 The thick coat of brown ‘home-made’. 1886Lowell Wks. (1890) VI. 173 An over⁓weening confidence in itself and its home-made methods. 1898Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 7/1 There are two fogs familiar to the Londoner—the ‘home-made fog’, still, cold, anticyclonic, [etc.]. 1932Blunden Face of Eng. 110 A box or two of popcorn and ‘home-mades’ in the front window of a cottage. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 808 He [sc. Stalin]..preferred that it [sc. criticism] should be home-made by the party. 1946A. Huxley Let. 19 June (1969) 547 Whether there are powers of evil other than our own home-made devils is an open question. 1955[see farm-house b]. 1959Brno Studies I. 24 The most important of such home-made digraphs is obviously gh, which replaced the old grapheme h in medial and word-final positions.
†2. Sent home, home-delivered. Obs. rare.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 852 Seconding With home-made thrust the heavy swing, She laid him flat upon his side. |