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#151811 12/09/05 05:15 PM
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>>shut-in comes close, in its second usage:
2. Disposed to avoid social contact; excessively withdrawn or introverted. [AHD4]


>Shut-in is good but it might be meant to apply to someone who is kept indoors for valid reasons such as illness.

well yeah; that was, of course, the first sense given by AHD.
-ron (shut-in nonetheless -- it's cold out there) o.

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#151812 12/09/05 10:09 PM
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stay-at-home?


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#151813 12/09/05 11:43 PM
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Well I certainly wouldn't abandon recluse. That seems to me to be the best word offered so far.


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[...] recluse [...] seems to me to be the best word offered so far.




This is only because no one has proposed house-potato.

#151815 12/10/05 11:40 AM
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I'd not have connected couch potato with the word you were looking for, said TEd with recluse abandon.

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