outside-sort-of

Updated: May 3, 2025

She soon solved, to her own satisfaction and Honey-Sweet's, the meaning of the name 'Home for Girls. "It's one of the words that means it isn't the thing it says," she explained. "Like butterfly. That isn't a fly and it doesn't make butter. And 'Home for Girls' means that it isn't a home at all, but a schooly, outside-sort-of place."

Edna Henry Lee Turpin - Honey-Sweet