homemade

adj

Etymology

From home + made.

  1. derived from *mot-
  2. inherited from *maþô
  3. inherited from maþu
  4. inherited from mathe
  5. compounded as homemade — “home + made

Definitions

  1. Made at home.

    • a homemade chicken casserole
    • [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
  2. Made by oneself.

    • Near-synonyms: homebrew, handmade
    • a homemade bomb
  3. In a simple style as if made at home.

    • Near-synonym: homespun
    • a homemade aphorism

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for homemade. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA