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Homespun vs Workaday - What's the difference?

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Homespun is a related term of workaday.


As adjectives the difference between homespun and workaday

is that homespun is (of yarn) spun in the home while workaday is suitable for everyday use.

As a noun homespun

is fabric made from homespun yarn.

homespun

English

Adjective

  • (of yarn) Spun in the home.
  • (of fabric) Woven in the home.
  • (of clothing etc) Made from homespun fabric.
  • * Washington Irving
    • homespun country garbs
  • (by extension) Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.
  • * Dryden
    • our homespun English proverb
  • * Addison
    • our homespun authors
  • * (seeCites)

    • Noun

  • Fabric made from homespun yarn.
  • * (seeCites)
  • (obsolete) An unpolished, rustic person. Example: "What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?" - Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act III Scene I
  • * (seeCites)

    • See also

    * homegrown * roughspun

    workaday

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suitable for everyday use
  • mundane or commonplace

    • Quotations

    * 1916 , (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), (James Joyce), Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 102: *:A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world."

    Related terms

    * workday

    References