home-sittern.1
/ˈhəʊmsɪtə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌsɪdər/ A person who stays at home; a homebody.
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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
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxciii, in Poems (1878) IV. 174 Enflame home-sitters by long Pedigrees Of their Atcheivments.
1836 Plebeians & Patricians I. xvii. 180 He was no longer the home-sitter that we have seen in Factory Hall.
1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. 277 None of your home-sitters, or doers of gratuitous bookwork.
1944 Santa Fe New Mexican 9 Oct. 3/8 She braved her lawyer father's wrath to study painting at the Wiener Werkstaette..instead of being ‘a home sitter’.
2007 O. Figes Whisperers i. 22 When we passed a building with people watching from the windows, we would..chant in unison: ‘Home-sitters, window-watchers—shame on you!’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
home-sittern.2
/ˈhəʊmsɪtə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌsɪdər/ Originally U.S.
= house-sitter n.
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1953 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 20 Dec. 32/6 ‘Home sitters’ receive 50 cents an hour for a four-hour minimum.
1971 Washington Post 28 Aug. f1/1 (advt.) Home Sitter—Reliable couple..ready to live in & take care of your home during your winter vacation.
1982 N.Y. Times 18 Nov. c9/3 (heading) Overlooked in Patrick Flanagan's article..is the utilization of the barter services of a ‘home sitter’.
2003 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 2 Mar. 34 One solution might be to hire a homesitter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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