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with Anu Garghomespun
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. See more usage examples of homespun in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)
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