What is "homebody"

Usage examples of "homebody".

Though it was a puzzlement to him how the daughter of a drifter and a grifter executed a one-eighty to become a small-town homebody, the fact that puzzles were his business made it, and her, only more interesting.

She looked for all the world like a homebody, a meticulous housewife, and in normal times she was probably a cheerful soul.

The Homebody man who had come up the road stopped beside them, his face turning grave.

But my idea of a sewing woman is a plain-Jane homebody wearing pincushions on each wrist and who spends her nights with one of those dressmaker dealies instead of a date.

Given her interest and aptitude in the kitchen, she was also proving to be something of a homebody, which was perhaps just what J.

Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood.

She was a homebody who one day might marry an equally unadventurous man who liked his home comforts.

Vegas showgirl, a homebody scientist, an obscure research assistant nobody was watching, all acting on their collective sense of what was right, picked up the dropped stitches.

Only in the jealous vocabularies of the Homebodies, so long tied to their hutches and routines that the scope of mind and emotion had narrowed to fit their microcosm.

They called themselves that, but Homebodies and Climbers had to maintain a genteel courtesy toward the people they deported.

Here in this maze of tenements, the crowd was a mix of working types, homebodies, and the SINless.

Nematodes are both host specific and homebodies, so they will starve if you remove their favourite plants and put some more in another spot in the garden.

Quiet homebodies have been known to lead exotic and secret lives, and I wondered if Gillian had done anything else on her shopping trips into Marlow besides buying the odd pound of tea.

But, stepping onto the sidewalk in front of Boyden McNair Incorporated, I merely shrugged my shoulders and thought to myself, Well-a-day, you fat son-of-a-gun, you can't be a homebody and see the world too.