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Homemade vs Home-made

Both "homemade" and "home-made" are correct, but "homemade" is more commonly used in English. The hyphenated form "home-made" is less common but still acceptable.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 925 views

Homemade

This is a correct and commonly used term in English.

The term "homemade" is used to describe something made at home, typically referring to food or crafts.

Examples:

She baked a delicious homemade apple pie.
I prefer homemade gifts for special occasions.
His mother makes the best homemade pasta sauce.
We enjoyed a cozy evening with homemade soup.
The restaurant is known for its delicious homemade bread.

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Hope you saved room for one of our delicious Max's Homemade Cupcakes.
You keep saying "Max's Homemade Cupcakes" like it's a thing.
Homemade silencer attached to the gun we brought in earlier.
Detonated a homemade bomb at Westings designs.
Not what you'd expect from a homemade cocktail.
So, a Max's Homemade Cupcake?
12 kinds of cookies and homemade peanut brittle.
Krusty, I brought some homemade chicken soup.
I said homemade and this is clearly store-bought.
That is our homemade green screen.
A combination of poor penmanship and homemade inks.
It's a homemade bread pudding.
It's a homemade, inexpensive, all-purpose cleaner.
We found a homemade explosive device under Angela's car.
Someone must have tried to treat rivero's wound with a homemade poultice.
It's sweet, but there's nothing like homemade wine.
That device is homemade which means it's unstable and unreliable.
Homemade... from my own urine.
Homemade gasoline fire bombs in the ceiling.
He's trying To avoid eating One of my wife's Homemade donuts.

Alternatives:

home-cooked
handmade
home-prepared
homegrown
home-brewed

Home-made

This is a correct term in English, but less commonly used than "homemade".

The term "home-made" is also used to describe something made at home, with a hyphen between "home" and "made".

Examples:

She wore a beautiful home-made dress to the party.
The children made a home-made card for their teacher.
He gifted her a lovely home-made candle.
We enjoyed a home-made meal with friends.
The bakery sells delicious home-made cookies.

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Stephen doesn't like my home-made wine.
The only other thing was, she was wearing this really strong home-made perfume, Concupis...
That was a very lovely, home-made solution to harmonic inventiveness.
In olden times, this home-made dish was prepared after the 'Fest an oc'h', a feast held in connection with the sacrifice of pigs.
With a home-made flame-thrower?
Mounted it to a home-made barge... And kept right on going.
Followed by blancmange. Home-made.
That's a home-made lunch.
Home-made fudge, carrot cake, date nut bread.
"Country Baby: Home-made in Cleveland"?
Particularism and protectionism are our own home-made risk.
I was particularly struck by your idea for the home-made Music Hall.
They are perfectly justified in now closing their operation down in response to the home-made crisis for which President Chandrika Kumaratunga must bear responsibility.
Before you ask, they're not home-made.
So when I returned, we built a home-made piledriver.
Our poor economic growth is largely home-made: 'made in Europe'.
That'll keep somebody busy, viewing all their home-made DVDs.
Felisa's home-made dishes are fantastic.
I repeat, we celebrated the European Day of home-made ice cream.
Some of these obstacles are home-made.

Alternatives:

homemade
home-cooked
handmade
home-prepared
homegrown

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