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homemade

[ hohm-meyd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

made make or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts:
The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
made make in one's own country; domestic:
I prefer a homemade car to one of those foreign models.
made, make, contrived, or assembled by oneself; not professionally made make or done; amateurish:
the plain look of homemade furniture.

First recorded in 1650–60; home + made

And that solution came from a homemade brew Branch and her sister created together.

The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.

A waiter brings out some fresh pretzels and homemade pork and wine sausages.

They filed past hoisting homemade flags, university flags, Mexican flags, flags that said “Ayotzi Vive.”

Her parents rebutted the accusations through homemade (though highly produced) videos which promote her exhibitions.

The cut (Fig. 64) makes this clear, and reminds one of an old-fashioned homemade gate.

The homemade siphon shown in the sketch consists of two rubber corks and a glass tube with a rubber hose connected to it.

He pulled the muddy socks off his shoeless foot, and drew on one of the warm, homemade affairs, and then the shoe.

I commend this homemade philosophy to all who may read this chapter.

She had lost the cute little homemade cap in the flurry, and her luxuriant hair hung loosely about her shoulder.

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