单词 | home-formed |
释义 | > as lemmashome-formed (a) Locative, combining with participles to form adjectives with the sense ‘in one's home country’, ‘at home, esp. as opposed to in a shop, factory, or similar establishment’, as home-dyed, home-formed, home-left, etc. Cf. home-brewed adj., homemade adj., homespun adj., etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately at Compounds 1b(b). ΚΠ eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) xlii. 74 Se mon se ðe his gefan hamsittendne wite, þæt he ne feohte, ær ðam he him ryhtes bidde. OE Daniel 686 Ða þæt gehogode hamsittende, Meda aldor.., þæt he Babilone abrecan wolde. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvi. 310 I wille not aske..why you should home-left Love forgit. 1728 R. Savage Bastard 7 Far be the Guilt of homeshed Blood from All, On whom unsought, embroiling Dangers fall! 1749 M. Browne Sunday Thoughts: Pt. I 40 If thy mate, or home-left family..Thy visit need, thy lonely haunts refrain. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xii. 250 The wives were all in homespun, homedyed linsey woolsey gowns. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 55 Various home-filled bottles. 1909 Daily Chron. 3 Nov. 9/3 Those determined that loved ones far away shall share in the home-chopped suet, home-stoned raisins and home-beat eggs. 1917 H. E. Bennett School Efficiency xx. 222 Particularly in contending against home-formed and home-encouraged habits of speech is eternal vigilance the price of thoroughness and economy. 1970 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 12 A house-owning, two-car, fashion-conscious, home-entertaining, overseas-holidaying middle class. 2000 DigitalFoto Oct. 83/1 We used a home-constructed turntable with incremental hash marks around its 360-degree perimeter. < as lemmas |
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