homeworky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homeworky
form: most homeworky
Etymology: From homework + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When I very patiently pointed out that proper parents – the kind who really love their daughters – buy presents as a reward for good grades, do you know what she said? ‘I’ll treat you to a chocolate-chip muffin next time we’re in Trotters.’ Hours and hours of hard homeworky slog rewarded with a stingy bit of cake in an old person’s café.
ref: 2007, Annabelle Starr [pseudonym; Kirsty Neale], SongBird (Megastar Mysteries), London: Egmont UK Limited, →ISBN, page 4:
text: When you or Mom would come in my room to check up on me on a school night, I’d just hide the game on my screen behind a Word document and pretend to be doing homework. Same thing with AOL Instant Messaging. I’d always have a homeworky-looking document ready to hide my IMing from you when you came in my room.
ref: 2014, Bill Ratner, quoting Arianna, “Families Talk”, in Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media’s Effect on Children, and What to Do About It, [Sanger, Calif.]: Familius LLC, →ISBN, part II (Solutions), page 156:
text: In a blink, I’m back on Fergus’s laptop, checking everything he’s looked at during the past few days. There’s a web page about the construction of the Eiffel Tower, and another on the role of the viola in an orchestra. It’s all innocent, homeworky stuff.
ref: 2014, Fiona Gibson, Take Mum Out, London: Avon, →ISBN, page 116:
text: That’s really what this chapter is all about: clearing the outdated and unworkable elements from your closet and transforming it into a glamorous, thoughtfully edited space, ready to fill with fun, interchangeable pieces that make you up-to-the-minute chic. Now here’s the homeworky part. To do that, you’ve gotta give some things the boot—maybe even your boots.
ref: 2016, Carson Kressley with Riann Smith, “Out with the Old … In with the Ooh!”, in Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big? A Cheeky Guide to Feeling Sexier in Your Own Skin and Unleashing Your Personal Style, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 28, columns 1–2:
text: I want to give you just enough theory so you know exactly what's going on under the surface, and just enough practice so that you know how to gain insights from your own data. As a result, this book is NOT intended to be a substitute for a full-length text or course in statistics! You won't learn how to solve homeworky-style problems.
ref: 2017 August 21, N[icole] M. Radziwill, “Preface”, in Statistics (the Easier Way) with R: An Informal Text on Applied Statistics and Data Science, 2nd edition, San Francisco, Calif.: Lapis Lucera, →ISBN, page i:
text: ‘We can get sponsored to dress up, and run stalls with cakes and games,’ I say, relieved Mrs Riley is looking happier. ‘We’ll get the newspaper to report it, so we can tell all of Camford and raise even more money.’ / ‘That’s more like it!’ The head teacher grins. ‘And you can each learn one fact about the sea creature you dress up as, and make one pledge about something you can do to help the oceans!’ / Everyone’s gone quiet. They preferred the FART-A-THON. Typical. It took me ages to make that poster. And it’s definitely not helped by Mrs Riley’s homeworky additions.
ref: 2020, Elaine Wickson, Super Stan, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 45–46:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of homework.