homespun

homespun
    adj 1: of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted
           of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: {homespun(p)}, {nubby},
           {nubbly}, {slubbed}, {tweedy}]
    2: characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy";
       "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn:
       {cracker-barrel}, {folksy}, {homespun}]
    3: made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen";
       "homespun garments"
    n 1: a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that
         was spun at home
    

Homespun \Home"spun\, a.
   1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse;
      plain. "Homespun country garbs." --W. Irving.
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   2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our
      homespun English proverb." --Dryden. "Our homespun
      authors." --Addison.
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Homespun \Home"spun\, n.
   1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
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   2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] --Shak.
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192 Moby Thesaurus words for "homespun":
      Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, amateur, amateurish,
      arcadian, ascetic, assembled, austere, bald, bare, basic,
      bourgeois, broken, bucolic, built, bumpy, campy, candid, cast,
      chaste, choppy, classic, classical, coarse, coarse-grained, common,
      commonplace, constructed, corrugated, crafted, created,
      cross-grained, crude, custom, custom-built, custom-made, direct,
      down-to-earth, dry, dull, elementary, essential, everyday,
      extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, frank,
      fundamental, garden, garden-variety, gathered, general, genuine,
      grainy, granulated, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested,
      high-camp, homely, homemade, homogeneous, horripilant, household,
      inartificial, indivisible, inelegant, inequal, irreducible,
      irregular, jolty, kitschy, lean, linsey-woolsey, low-camp,
      machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made,
      manufactured, matter-of-fact, mere, milled, mined, molded,
      monolithic, native, natural, naturelike, neat, nondescript,
      of a piece, open, ordinary, pastoral, pimply, pitted, plain,
      plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plebeian, pocky, pop, popular,
      potholed, prefab, prefabricated, primal, primary, processed,
      prosaic, prosing, prosy, public, pure, pure and simple,
      put together, raised, rank, ready-for-wear, ready-formed,
      ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, ripply, rough,
      rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rude, ruffled, rural,
      rustic, rutted, rutty, severe, shagged, shaggy, shaped, simon-pure,
      simple, simple-speaking, single, smelted, sober, spare, stark,
      straightforward, textured, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial,
      unassuming, uncluttered, undesigning, undifferenced,
      undifferentiated, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating,
      unembellished, uneven, unfeigning, uniform, unimaginative, unkempt,
      unlevel, unpoetical, unpolished, unpretending, unpretentious,
      unprofessional, unrefined, unsmooth, unsophisticated, unspoiled,
      ununiform, unvarnished, vernacular, well-built, well-constructed,
      well-made, wimpled, workaday, workday