From home + body.
homebody (plural homebodies)
- (Canada, US, informal) A person who prefers to remain at home, rather than participate in social events elsewhere.
- Synonyms: couch potato, sit-by-the-fire, stay at home
Although my uncle likes to travel, my aunt is a homebody, so he usually comes with us while she stays home with her cats.
1852, Mary Henderson Eastman, “chapter XIV”, in Aunt Phillis's Cabin:After Phillis left Mrs. Weston's room, she was on her way to her cabin, when she noticed Aunt Peggy sitting alone at the door. She was rather a homebody; yet she reproached herself with having neglected poor old Peggy, when she saw her looking so desolate and dejected.
person who likes to stay home
- Belarusian: дамасе́д m (damasjéd), дамасе́дка f (damasjédka), дамара́д m (damarád), дамара́дка f (damarádka)
- Bulgarian: домоша́р m (domošár), домоша́рка f (domošárka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 宅男 (zh) (zháinán) (male), 宅女 (zh) (zháinǚ) (female)
- Czech: pecivál (cs) m, peciválka f
- Dutch: huismus (nl) m or f
- Finnish: kotikissa (fi)
- French: casanier (fr) m, pantouflard (fr) m
- German: Stubenhocker (de) m, Stubenhockerin (de) f
- Greek: σπιτόγατος (el) m (spitógatos)
- Hungarian: otthonülő (hu) (ember/típus)
- Icelandic: heimakær, innipúki
- Italian: pantofolaio (it) m
- Japanese: インドア派 (indoaha)
- Korean: 집돌이 (jipdori) (male), 집순이 (jipsuni) (female)
- Macedonian: домашар m (domašar), домашарка f (domašarka)
- Maori: kōkōmuka noho tara-ā-whare, kōkōmuka tū tara-ā-whare
- Polish: domator (pl) m, domatorka (pl) f
- Portuguese: caseiro (pt) m
- Russian: домосе́д (ru) m (domoséd), домосе́дка (ru) f (domosédka)
- Slovak: domased m, domasedka f
- Spanish: casero (es) m
- Ukrainian: домосі́д m (domosíd), домосі́дка f (domosídka), домува́льник m (domuválʹnyk), домува́льниця f (domuválʹnycja)
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