home-made

A form of homemade — Made at home.

Meanings

adjectivehome-made (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of homemade.

    He was home, or at least what he had so quickly come to regard as home, and the few women — not a man there — who had come to the burial had had their tea and boiled ham sandwiches, their home-made sausage rolls and their maid-of-honour tarts.

    2007, Allen Makepeace, And Such Great Names as These, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 127
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    Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.

    2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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