home-made, a.
[f. home n. 15 b and adv. 8 b.]
1. Made at home or for home consumption; of domestic manufacture. Also absol., and ellipt. as n.
| a 1659 Cleveland Poems, Sanbourn 35 Loaves of Home⁓made Bread. 1768 Boswell Corsica iii. (ed. 2) 193 None but the very peasants wear home-made cloth. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneer xi. (1869) 47 The thick coat of brown ‘home-made’. 1886 Lowell Wks. (1890) VI. 173 An over⁓weening confidence in itself and its home-made methods. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 7/1 There are two fogs familiar to the Londoner—the ‘home-made fog’, still, cold, anticyclonic, [etc.]. 1932 Blunden Face of Eng. 110 A box or two of popcorn and ‘home-mades’ in the front window of a cottage. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 808 He [sc. Stalin]..preferred that it [sc. criticism] should be home-made by the party. 1946 A. Huxley Let. 19 June (1969) 547 Whether there are powers of evil other than our own home-made devils is an open question. 1955 [see farm-house b]. 1959 Brno Studies I. 24 The most important of such home-made digraphs is obviously gh, which replaced the old grapheme h in medial and word-final positions. |
† 2. Sent home, home-delivered. Obs. rare.
| 1663 Butler Hud. i. iii. 852 Seconding With home-made thrust the heavy swing, She laid him flat upon his side. |