pipe-and-slipper

adjective

Fond of, or relating to, domestic comforts; inclined to remain peacefully at home.

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adjectivepipe-and-slipper (not comparable)

alternative pipe-and-slippers

  1. not comparableFond of, or relating to, domestic comforts; inclined to remain peacefully at home.

    […] the comforts of a pipe-and-slipper existence.

    1946, The American Magazine, volume 141, page 57
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    At fifty-one Bill has become a pipe-and-slipper suburban squire who actually prefers to play the piano or organ in the company of a few friends to sitting around sports plazas punishing the bottle.

    1947, Esquire, volume 28, page lviii

    Steel girders were now rising to impossible heights where once there had been the cozy old standing stones doing their business in a pipe-and-slipper sort of way, which they had done for thousands of years without fuss […]

    2012, Alan Richardson, The Fat Git, page 109

    I knew she liked a good time when I married her. She was always the life and soul of the party. Trouble was, I was a pipe and slipper man and she couldn't stand it […]

    2016, Rosie Goodwin, Crying Shame

Origin

From the idea of a man relaxing at home, wearing slippers and smoking a pipe.

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