Definition of House-proud

1. Adjective. Proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep.

Similar to: Proud

Definition of House-proud

1. Adjective. Proud of one's house, its furnishings, or its upkeep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of House-proud

hourwise
housage
housages
housane
house
house-breaker
house-breakers
house-broken
house-builder
house-call
house-coat
house-coats
house-detective
house-door
house-doors
house-proud (current term)
house-raising
house-search
house-searches
house-sit
house-sitter
house-to-house
house-trained
house-wall
house-walls
house-warming
house agent
house arrest
house boy
house breaker

Literary usage of House-proud

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"house-proud.—A person is said to be house-proud who takes care that the furniture and arrangements of her dwelling are neat. ..."

2. Self-Neglect Among the Elderly: Maintaining Continuity of Self by Susanna D. Bozinovski (1998)
"I was very house proud. I should also tell you that I was married to an ... I always you know, was a very house proud person and my house was always very ..."

3. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
"My house, proud lord, is full as noble as thine own—perhaps more ancient. I am no page— I am the only son of " " I will not even hear who thou art—wert thou ..."

4. Portraits of Women by Gamaliel Bradford (1916)
"Pepys was proud of her, proud of his house, proud of his hospitality, which enlarged as riches came. He took her about with him often to the houses of his ..."

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