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Homey   /hˈoʊmi/   Listen
Homey

adjective
(compar. homier; superl. homiest)
1.
Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable.  Synonyms: homelike, homely, homy.  "A homey little inn"





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"Homey" Quotes from Famous Books



... get on terms of friendliness. Nan suddenly longed for the dear, comfortable intimacy of the panelled hall at Mallow, with its masses of freshly-cut flowers making a riot of colour against the dark oak background, its Persian rugs dimmed to a mellow richness by the passage of time, and the sweet, "homey" ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
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... Katherine! It will surely be a great comfort to me—give me such a homey feeling, you know, and I—" but Sadie's tremulous lips and an unmanageable lump in her throat would not permit ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
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... good, regular soldier talk, very "homey" to me. As you will observe, I have not elided the h's. Indeed, Tommy has a way of prefixing his h's to the right vowels more frequently than a generation ago. The Soldiers Three type has passed. Popular education ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
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... exclaimed Captain Elisha. "I declare, you take me back a long ways, Mr. Sylvester. Caviar! Well, well! Why, I haven't ate this since I used to go to Cronstadt. At the American consul's house there we had it often enough. Has a kind of homey taste even yet. That consul was a good feller. He and I ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln
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... unearthed during the past week have a certain homey flavor lacking in some of those which have gone before. For instance, the man in New Jersey who had two wives living right with him all of the time in the same apartment. No need for subterfuge ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
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Words linked to "Homey" :   homely, comfy, home, homy, comfortable


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