Shir, I love your mearas and I wouldn't do this unless I'd heard you ask for English pointers in the past.
homely = not very pretty.
My sister did not know this. She's the 'girly' one in our family and one time after she'd spent a couple hours primping in the bathroom, my grandmother told her, "even after all that you still manange to look homely*" Meg thanked her quite sincerely and I think it was the best comeback any of us ever got at Mom's mom, even though we had to explain it to Meg later.
In cleansing news- 100% grapefruit juice is tasty! I shied away in the past because I thought grapefruit required sugar but this stuff is so good I had to double check the label.
*I know, grammas, right?
Thanks, Laga - of course, I had no idea (sorry, Jilli, to crash my lack-of-English-experiments on you!).
So wait. What word would you use to describe something that feels like home to you? Domestic is the only one I can think of which is around, but it's really not it.
I thought homey was referring to a person, not a place. Huh.
I have a French Canadian friend who said his girlfriend looked middle-aged when he meant she looked medieval (it was her dress). She was 19 and didn't take it well, so it was pretty...okay, we shouldn't have laughed, but we did.
Of course, he's the same guy that when another girl asked him "Do I look fat in this?" his answer was "Not more than usual" so he was always a gold mine of the wrong thing to say to a chick.
I feel like homey is a pretty recent addition to English but if I heard, "this place has a homey feel" I would understand they meant it felt like home.
French Canadian
Hey, that reminds me, Shir. Parlez-vous Francais?
That is a
neat
website! I love the usage chart by year.
Montreal rocks, Shir.
I thought homey was referring to a person, not a place. Huh.
That's a more recent slang usage.
