house hermit

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house hermit (plural house hermits)

  1. A person who remains at home and rarely goes out.
    • 1990, Spectrum, volume 32, page 29:
      The world was getting smaller and smaller and he had a feeling he was soon gonna be a house hermit, trapped indoors with books and the T.V.
    • 2021, Mary Hargreaves, Enough Already:
      It feels strange to be back on my usual commute, after so long being a house hermit.

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