Oooh, never seen that before, we're tied for first on my leaderboard! Well played my friend! 👏

yeah, annoyingly got that wrong cause I had no idea the Americans used that word differently. Also why on earth would homely mean ugly??

Just the US, in the UK it would mean a warm, cosy and lovely house.

I'm American and I got it wrong because I've only ever known the British meaning.

I totally mixed up both words. I didn't even know that homely meant something else.

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Something more like "reminiscent of home". It's an interesting one though because the root for both meanings is the same Middle English word, which meant something like "plain; simple; unadorned" or "fit only for the home". So it's easy to see how it evolved to mean both things, but the "ugly" meaning has only survived in North America, and the more literal meaning elsewhere.