stay-at-home

[ stey-uh t-hohm ]

/ ˈsteɪ ətˌhoʊm /

not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.

of or relating to time spent at home: a stay-at-home evening.

a person who stays at home a good deal; a person not inclined to travel; homebody.

Origin of stay-at-home

First recorded in 1800–10

Over Skype, wearing a blue button-down and Apple earbuds, he looks like any other stay-at-home dad in North Scottsdale.

My $295 Skype Exorcism |Scott Bixby |February 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Or what if she is planning to adopt but her husband will be a stay-at-home dad?

Are Anti-Discrimination Laws Working Against Millennial Women? |Keli Goff |January 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He said: “The people did not respond to the stay-at-home to the extent to which we expected them to do.”

Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings |Benjamin Pogrund |December 6, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And in the 2010 comedy Grown Ups, Chris Rock plays a stay-at-home father who is mercilessly emasculated by his own mother-in-law.

Pop Culture’s House Husbands Lag Behind the Reality in American Homes |Soraya Roberts |June 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

The few progressive on-screen depictions of stay-at-home papas have not ended well.

Pop Culture’s House Husbands Lag Behind the Reality in American Homes |Soraya Roberts |June 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Stay-at-home as I was, why trouble myself with strange lands until necessary?

The Joys of Being a Woman |Winifred Kirkland
The stay-at-home, however, had news; news he was impatient to tell.

South from Hudson Bay |E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
Until he went to Tilliedrum Jamie had been more a stay-at-home boy than most.

A Window in Thrums |J. M. Barrie
We are quite different from what you stay-at-home women fancy.

The Gorgeous Girl |Nalbro Bartley
But the Lycosa is a stay-at-home animal; I do not see her straying abroad during the summer.

More Hunting Wasps |J. Henri Fabre

stay-at-home

(of a person) enjoying a quiet, settled, and unadventurous use of leisure

a stay-at-home person

a person who does not bother to vote in a political election