A.Word.A.Day--homespun

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Sep 10, 2010

This week's theme
Words related to spinning

This week's words
distaff
spinster
dizen
subtile
homespun

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with Anu Garg

homespun

PRONUNCIATION:

(HOHM-spun)

MEANING:

adjective: Unsophisticated; unpolished; rustic.

ETYMOLOGY:

The word acquired its figurative meaning alluding to something made of yarn spun at home, one that's plain and coarse.

USAGE:

"I hope Britain never junks the homespun simplicity of basic biscuits for garish, fancy packets."
Oliver Thring; Consider the Biscuit; The Guardian (London, UK); Aug 10, 2010.

Explore "homespun" in the Visual Thesaurus.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-188

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