stay-at-home
[stey-uh t-hohm]
- not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
- of or relating to time spent at home: a stay-at-home evening.
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- a person who stays at home a good deal; a person not inclined to travel; homebody.
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Origin of stay-at-home
First recorded in 1800–10
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Contemporary Examples
Over Skype, wearing a blue button-down and Apple earbuds, he looks like any other stay-at-home dad in North Scottsdale.
Or what if she is planning to adopt but her husband will be a stay-at-home dad?
He said: “The people did not respond to the stay-at-home to the extent to which we expected them to do.”
As blacks were forbidden to strike it was called a "stay-at-home" but the cosmetic phrase did not hide the illegality.
And in the 2010 comedy Grown Ups, Chris Rock plays a stay-at-home father who is mercilessly emasculated by his own mother-in-law.
Historical Examples
We are quite different from what you stay-at-home women fancy.
The Gorgeous GirlNalbro Bartley
Old age and invalidism had made the restless man a stay-at-home.
Erasmus and the Age of ReformationJohan Huizinga
It is we stay-at-home British birds that really keep the insects down.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties"Douglas English
Until he went to Tilliedrum Jamie had been more a stay-at-home boy than most.
A Window in ThrumsJ. M. Barrie
You are the most stay-at-home person by way of a gentleman that I ever heard of.
An Old Man's LoveAnthony Trollope
stay-at-home
- (of a person) enjoying a quiet, settled, and unadventurous use of leisure
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- a stay-at-home person
- a person who does not bother to vote in a political election
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