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homemade

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home⋅made

  [hohm-meyd]
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–adjective
1. made 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.
2. made in one's own country; domestic: I prefer a homemade car to one of those foreign models.
3. made, contrived, or assembled by oneself; not professionally made or done; amateurish: the plain look of homemade furniture.
Origin:
1650–60; home + made
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home·made   (hōm'mād')   
adj.  

  1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie.

  2. Made by oneself.

  3. Crudely or simply made.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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