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Sep 10, 2010 This week's theme Words related to spinning This week's words distaff spinster dizen subtile homespun This week's comments AWADmail 428 Next week's theme Fabled lands A Word A Day the book "Delightful." -The New York Times Buy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg homespun PRONUNCIATION: (HOHM-spun) MEANING: adjective: Unsophisticated; unpolished; rustic. ETYMOLOGY: The word acquired its figurative meaning alluding to something made of yarn spun at home, one that's plain and coarse. USAGE: "I hope Britain never junks the homespun simplicity of basic biscuits for garish, fancy packets." Oliver Thring; Consider the Biscuit; The Guardian (London, UK); Aug 10, 2010. Explore "homespun" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)

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