homebody

Etymology

home + body

noun

1. (Canada, US, informal) A person who prefers to remain at home, rather than participate in social events elsewhere.
   Although my uncle likes to travel, my aunt is a homebody, so he usually comes with us while she stays home with her cats.
   After Phillis left Mrs. Weston's room, she was on her way to her cabin, when she noticed Aunt Peggy sitting alone at the door. She was rather a homebody; yet she reproached herself with having neglected poor old Peggy, when she saw her looking so desolate and dejected. 1852, Mary Henderson Eastman, “chapter XIV”, in Aunt Phillis's Cabin