house-warm, v.
[Back-formation from house-warming.]
intr. To give, or take part in, a house-warming (sense 2); trans. to entertain at a house-warming. (rare in finite vb.)
| 1666 Pepys Diary 1 Nov., A very noble cake, which I presently resolved to have my wife go with to-day, and some wine, and house-warm my Betty Michell. c 1810 L. Hunt Blue-Stocking Rev. i. 64 Tasteful shade of magnificent house-warming Guelph. |