homekeeping

English

Etymology

home +‎ keeping

Adjective

homekeeping (not comparable)

  1. Staying at home.
    • 1860, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 56, page 678:
      Forty years ago, if any aspiring Protheus, conceiving that “home-keeping youths have ever homely wits,” desired to cross the Channel, he had two ways open to him.
    • 1941, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know:
      Nellie was a homekeeping woman, and a trip to Indiana would mean something to her.

Noun

homekeeping (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”)
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