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I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.
Simon's voice sounds as young as it did on "Homeward Bound," and the number brims with all the possibilities of teen romance in those hot '50s summers.
The child takes the boat out of the water, and mother and child head homeward.
You’ll see gaggles of geese and ducks waddling along the riverbanks, burdened donkeys treading steadfastly homeward, and oxen compliantly tilling the fields.
The last few years have witnessed Babe (animatronic pigs, dogs, sheep), several Homeward Bound s (dog and cat), a couple of Free Willy s (whale), and countless others I have, mercifully, been able to forget.