"sit-by-the-fire" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1926, Ring Lardner, The Love Nest and other stories:",
          "text": "It's remarkable how marriage changes them. I mean nobody would ever thought ^([sic]) Celia Sayles would turn out to be a sit-by-the-fire. I mean she still likes a good time, but her home and kiddies come first. I mean her home and kiddies come first.",
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          "ref": "1985, James Mallahan Cain, Roy Hoopes, Michael Hinden, 60 Years of Journalism, page 40:",
          "text": "The moment he allows the emphasis to swing the other way he becomes a sit-by-the-fire, a cockerel, a drone, a henpeck. A woman steps into this man's sphere at her peril.",
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        "A person who prefers to stay at home rather than go out and socialize."
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          "stay",
          "stay"
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          "at home",
          "at home"
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          "go out",
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          "socialize",
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          "word": "homebody"
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          "word": "stay-at-home"
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  "word": "sit-by-the-fire"
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        "A person who prefers to stay at home rather than go out and socialize."
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