house hermit

noun

A person who remains at home and rarely goes out.

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Meanings

nounhouse hermit (plural house hermits)

plural house hermits

  1. A person who remains at home and rarely goes out.

    It feels strange to be back on my usual commute, after so long being a house hermit.

    2021, Mary Hargreaves, Enough Already
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    The world was getting smaller and smaller and he had a feeling he was soon gonna be a house hermit, trapped indoors with books and the T.V.

    1990, Spectrum, volume 32, page 29
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