Homespun

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homespun \Home"spun\, a.
     1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse;
        plain. "Homespun country garbs." --W. Irving.
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     2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our


        homespun English proverb." --Dryden. "Our homespun
        authors." --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homespun \Home"spun\, n.
     1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
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     2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  homespun
       adj 1: of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of
              nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: {homespun(p)}, {nubby}, {nubbly},
               {slubbed}, {tweedy}]
       2: characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy";
          "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: {cracker-barrel},
           {folksy}]
       3: made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen";
          "homespun garments"
       n : a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun
           yarn [syn: {homespun fabric}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  192 Moby Thesaurus words for "homespun":
     Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, amateur, amateurish,
     arcadian, ascetic, assembled, austere, bald, bare, basic,
     bourgeois, broken, bucolic, built, bumpy, campy, candid, cast,
     chaste, choppy, classic, classical, coarse, coarse-grained, common,
     commonplace, constructed, corrugated, crafted, created,
     cross-grained, crude, custom, custom-built, custom-made, direct,
     down-to-earth, dry, dull, elementary, essential, everyday,
     extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, frank,
     fundamental, garden, garden-variety, gathered, general, genuine,
     grainy, granulated, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested,
     high-camp, homely, homemade, homogeneous, horripilant, household,
     inartificial, indivisible, inelegant, inequal, irreducible,
     irregular, jolty, kitschy, lean, linsey-woolsey, low-camp,
     machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made,
     manufactured, matter-of-fact, mere, milled, mined, molded,
     monolithic, native, natural, naturelike, neat, nondescript,
     of a piece, open, ordinary, pastoral, pimply, pitted, plain,
     plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plebeian, pocky, pop, popular,
     potholed, prefab, prefabricated, primal, primary, processed,
     prosaic, prosing, prosy, public, pure, pure and simple,
     put together, raised, rank, ready-for-wear, ready-formed,
     ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, ripply, rough,
     rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rude, ruffled, rural,
     rustic, rutted, rutty, severe, shagged, shaggy, shaped, simon-pure,
     simple, simple-speaking, single, smelted, sober, spare, stark,
     straightforward, textured, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial,
     unassuming, uncluttered, undesigning, undifferenced,
     undifferentiated, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating,
     unembellished, uneven, unfeigning, uniform, unimaginative, unkempt,
     unlevel, unpoetical, unpolished, unpretending, unpretentious,
     unprofessional, unrefined, unsmooth, unsophisticated, unspoiled,
     ununiform, unvarnished, vernacular, well-built, well-constructed,
     well-made, wimpled, workaday, workday