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Meanings of
homespun
in inglés
Of textiles; having a rough surface.
tweedy
nubby
nubbly
slubbed
Related terms
rough
unsmooth
Characteristic of country life.
folksy
cracker-barrel
Related terms
rural
Synonyms
Examples for "
tweedy
"
tweedy
nubby
nubbly
slubbed
Examples for "
tweedy
"
1
A
tweedy
man with a small mustache stood in the doorway.
2
Essentially with what amounts to a
tweedy
shrug of the shoulders.
3
It's a word loved by
tweedy
academics because of its ambiguity and obscurity.
4
And then there were the
tweedy
ones, but only a few.
5
You see the rumpled
tweedy
fellow talking to St. Clare?
1
He wore a
nubby
jacket and a silk turtleneck and sipped scotch.
2
He wore baggy dungarees and rubber boots, with a thick,
nubby
sweater.
3
Attitude lifted the bat for a third blow, his
nubby
teeth clenched.
4
Aren't Were-Hunters supposed to be extra special
nubby
treats for them?
5
Jack exhaled a cloud of blue, the
nubby
cigarette falling to the floor.
1
She had new breasts, still
nubbly
but there, under her shirt.
2
Most of us just muddle along with
nubbly
condoms and vibrators.
3
This low,
nubbly
tongue of land was roughly triangular.
4
Presently our vehicle bumps across a
nubbly
bridge, and enters what was once a fair city.
5
It was one of those hard,
nubbly
rolls.
Homespun.
Related terms
homemade
Homespun fabric.
homespun fabric
Usage of
homespun
in inglés
1
Other computer companies, however, have tried the
homespun
direct-marketing approach and failed.
2
TESTER embroidered in crewels in shades of blue on white
homespun
linen.
3
Underwear and sleeping garments were made of the natural colored
homespun
cloth.
4
The men wore shoes made of bark and
homespun
shirts and coats.
5
Rawhide was used in place of lines, and
homespun
garments were uniform.
6
And wherever you went, you found a population smilingly clad in
homespun
.
7
The sombre
homespun
garments had given place to fringed and beaded buckskin.
8
The
homespun
exhibition still housed inside the 240-year-old building is incredibly poignant.
9
How utterly
homespun
,
I scoffed in a fair imitation of Simon himself.
10
And there beside it stood a
homespun
figure surely known to me.
11
They ain't used to coarse
homespun
stuff down there in the village.
12
The hearth was cold, and heavy
homespun
cloth hung over the windows.
13
The women were weaving
homespun
,
knitting socks, nursing the wounded, and praying.
14
All of my clothes, up to the age of fourteen, were
homespun
.
15
He removed that as well, revealing a plain grey shirt of
homespun
.
16
The one she had bought had been brown, a rough
homespun
weave.
Other examples for "homespun"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
homespun
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
brown homespun
gray homespun
homespun cloth
wear homespun
rough homespun
More collocations
Homespun
through the time
Homespun
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common