homebodyn.
/ˈhəʊmˌbɒdi/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌbɑdi/ Originally U.S.
A person who prefers staying at home to going out or travelling. Also in extended use of an animal.
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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
1821 J. F. Cooper Spy I. xi. 175 Marry him I don't think I will—unless he becomes steadier and more of a homebody.
1886 Peterson's Mag. Jan. 74/2 She has been a home-body ever since I can remember, and never seems to have visitors.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror ii. 32 He said this girl was one of those domestic girls, a little home-body, and might be leaving the party any moment now.
1959 News Chron. 12 Aug. 6/8 She liked to be a homebody and..lie with her head on her master's foot.
1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 24 A cellar never takes umbrage; It takes us as we are, explorers, homebodies.
2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad xxvii. 188 You'd rather play the faithful little wifey, what with the weaving and so on. Bad me, I could never do it, I'd die of boredom. But you were always such a homebody.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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