homemade
[hohm-meyd]
- made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- made in one's own country; domestic: I prefer a homemade car to one of those foreign models.
- made, contrived, or assembled by oneself; not professionally made or done; amateurish: the plain look of homemade furniture.
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Origin of homemade
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Examples from the Web for homemade
Contemporary Examples
And that solution came from a homemade brew Branch and her sister created together.
Goodbye To A Natural Hair Guru: Miss Jessie's Cofounder Titi Branch Dead At 45Danielle Belton
December 16, 2014
The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.
A waiter brings out some fresh pretzels and homemade pork and wine sausages.
He set off from the coast of Senegal in a 24ft homemade rowboat.
Just under a third of all homemade sex tape submissions were created in the “Bible Belt.”
Christian Right-Wingers Love Porn: New Studies Suggest the Bible Belt Has A Kinky SideAurora Snow
October 11, 2014
Historical Examples
So, too, were the hot biscuits and the tea and homemade preserves and cake.
Cap'n Warren's WardsJoseph C. Lincoln
"I look the way I used to in my homemade, one-piece dresses," she breathed.
'Smiles'Eliot H. Robinson
Commercial lime-sulphur may also be used in place of this homemade wash.
Agriculture for BeginnersCharles William Burkett
The men have been out with homemade snowplows breaking a trail.
The Moving Picture Girls SnowboundLaura Lee Hope
They crossed on sleds to Baffin Island and in homemade boats to Greenland.
Greener Than You ThinkWard Moore
Word Origin and History for homemade
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper