house hermit

house hermit (plural house hermits)

1. A person who remains at home and rarely goes out.
   • 1990, Spectrum, volume 32, page 29:

     The world was getting smaller and smaller and he had a feeling he was soon gonna be a house hermit, trapped indoors with books and the T.V.

   • 2021, Mary Hargreaves, Enough Already:

     It feels strange to be back on my usual commute, after so long being a house hermit.

• homebody
• hikikomori