homely
要点家庭的な、質素な
意味
- 家庭的な
- 質素な;素朴な
- 平凡な,ありふれた
- 《米》器量の悪い
例文
The girl was not downright homely.
その女の子はひどく不美人というほどではなかった。
When I told her I'd never seen such a homely girl, she accused me of sexual harassment.
「お前みてえなおかちめんこは初めて見た」と言ったら、「セクハラだ」と言われた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English homly, hoomly, hamely (“domestic, familiar, plain, unattractive”), from Old English *hāmlīċ (“of the home, domestic”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimalīk (“of or characteristic of home”), equivalent to home + -ly. Cognate with Scots hamely (“familiar, personal, private”), West Frisian heimelik, Dutch heimelijk (“secret, secretive, clandestine”), German heimlich (“secret, secretive, clandestine, undercover”), Danish hemmelig (“secret”), Swedish hemlig (“secret, concealed, privy, covert”), Faroese heimligur (“homelike, homey”), Icelandic heimlegur (“homely; worldly”).