The Collaborative International Dictionary
Home-keeping
Home-keeping \Home"-keep`ing\, n. A staying at home.
Home-keeping
Home-keeping \Home"-keep`ing\ (-k[=e]p`[i^]ng), a. Staying at home; not gadding.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
--Shak.
Usage examples of "home-keeping".
But that was as good as telling him, and the more kindly the more offensively, that all his efforts hitherto had miscarried, that he should finally give up, come back home, and be gaped at by everyone as a returned prodigal, that only his friends knew what was what and that he himself was just a big child who should do what his successful and home-keeping friends prescribed.