pipe-and-slipper

English

Etymology

From the idea of a man relaxing at home, wearing slippers and smoking a pipe.

Adjective

pipe-and-slipper (not comparable)

1. Of a person, fond of domestic comforts; inclined to remain peacefully at home.
   • 1946, The American Magazine, volume 141, page 57:

     […] the comforts of a pipe-and-slipper existence.

   • 1947, Esquire, volume 28, page lviii:

     At fifty-one Bill has become a pipe-and-slipper suburban squire who actually prefers to play the piano or organ in the company of a few friends to sitting around sports plazas punishing the bottle.

   • 2012, Alan Richardson, The Fat Git, page 109:

     Steel girders were now rising to impossible heights where once there had been the cozy old standing stones doing their business in a pipe-and-slipper sort of way, which they had done for thousands of years without fuss […]

   • 2016, Rosie Goodwin, Crying Shame:

     I knew she liked a good time when I married her. She was always the life and soul of the party. Trouble was, I was a pipe and slipper man and she couldn't stand it […]

Alternative forms

• pipe-and-slippers