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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 Disposed to avoid social contact; excessively withdrawn or introverted.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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Well I certainly wouldn't abandon recluse. That seems to me to be the best word offered so far.
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Quote:
[...] recluse [...] seems to me to be the best word offered so far.
This is only because no one has proposed house-potato.
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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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