stay-at-homes

Noun

stay-at-home (plural stay-at-homes)

1. A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
   • I had a fancy to go there [Archangel in Russia]. Now my fancy has been gratified, and there is yet another place written down in the charts of my experience. And it is always a little saddening to exchange a dream for a reality—once also the Caucasus was a name crowded with boundless possibility...1911 August 20, Stephen Graham, “The White Night. Impressions of the Far North in Russia. From St. James’s Gazette.”, in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, section “A Riverside Inn”...

   Synonyms:

   homebody

2. A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.
   • We [women], I guess, got into the habit of being stay-at-homes while our children were small because you’re not there during the day with them, you tend to spend your evenings and weekends [with them] […]1990, Ruth Carter, Gill Kirkup, quoting Meg, “[Private lives] Children and childcare”, in Jo Campling, editor, Women in Engineering: A Good Place to Be? (Women in Society: A Feminist List)...

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