Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to home; resembling or suggesting home; homelike.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like a home or a home circle.

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  • adjective Like a home; domestic; cosy.

Etymologies

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home +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • "Oh, I should like that," said Erica; "a nice homish sort of book, please, where the people lived in Arcadia and never heard of law courts!"

    We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880

  • He, and his, with bottles and wallets furnished, to become wanderers as homish vagabonds; or, as banished men, to forsake the kingdom! "

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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  • What's a home circle?

    March 25, 2015

  • a quick search of 'home circle' indicates it means home and family, so it's more of a 'family circle' than a house circle.

    I'm thinking of the phrase "... what makes a house a home"

    March 25, 2015

  • gather-a-round? How's that ring?

    March 27, 2015