semi-homemade
semi-homemade adjective: partially homemade; for example, made at home with some store-bought ingredients, components, or subassemblies.
Adjective
semi-homemade (not comparable)
- Partially homemade; for example, made at home with some store-bought ingredients, components, or subassemblies.
- She prefers her own semi-homemade potting soil — she starts with one from the hardware store and then adds her own special compost.
- She runs a semi-homemade gaming PC — it has been customized for more power, memory, and speed.
- Based on commercially available convenience food, which is then customized at home with some more ingredients, often ones that are less processed (such as chopped whole foods).
- Her favorite pancakes are semi-homemade — she starts with a certain premade pancake mix and then adds cinnamon, barley flour, and other treats.
- Even the onion soup was semi-homemade, a bit salty, but better than many a pretentious French restaurant.1974, The Washingtonian - Volume 9, page 134
Examples of semi-homemade in a sentence
- The next essential part of this semi-homemade process is a quantity of moist earth for banking around the jig while the metal is being poured.1922, The Blacksmith & Wheelwright - Volumes 85-86, page 28:
- Older women were more likely either to stick with homemade stuffing or to use Stove Top as the foundation to a semi-homemade product.1995, Gail Baker-Woods, Advertising and Marketing to the New Majority, page 72:
- The more I thought about it, the better Jaxon 's little joke about Semi-Homemade sounded.2008, Kimberly T. Matthews, A Little Hurt Ain't Never Hurt Nobody, →ISBN, page 113:
- Sandra Lee's “semi-homemade” cooking is an example of this approach.2011, William D. Lassek, Steven Gaulin, Why Women Need Fat, →ISBN:
Forms of semi-homemade
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Origin of semi-homemade
From semi- + homemade.
Questions about semi-homemade
- What does semi-homemade mean?
- Semi-homemade means partially homemade; for example, made at home with some store-bought ingredients, components, or subassemblies.
- How do you use semi-homemade in a sentence?
- The next essential part of this semi-homemade process is a quantity of moist earth for banking around the jig while the metal is being poured.
- What part of speech is semi-homemade?
- Semi-homemade is an adjective.
Words near semi-homemade in the dictionary
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