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Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson noun: a person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.

Noun

Homer Simpson (plural Homer Simpsons)

  1. A person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.
    • A few months of this torture, and even the finest treads may begin to resemble a donut with a Homer Simpson-size bite out of it.2001, Brent Peterson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to RVing
    • Find out if you owe birth to an Albert Einstein or a Homer Simpson!2002 December, Weekly World News, volume 24, number 16

Examples of Homer Simpson in a sentence

  • Sample insults calling the recipient a slut, a bookworm, bucktoothed; characterizing them as having a "Homer Simpson gut," a crooked ponytail...2004, Serge P Shohov, Frank H Columbus, Advances in Psychology Research:
  • One of the employees, apparently a Homer Simpson prototype, "goosed" the man...2009, Todd Tucker, Atomic America:

Forms of Homer Simpson

pluralHomer Simpsons

Origin of Homer Simpson

Name of an amiable but stupid character who gorges on beer and doughnuts in the long-running animated television series The Simpsons. Officially named after creator Matt Groening's father, Homer Groening, but also said to be named after a character in Nathanael West's novel The Day of the Locust (1939).

Questions about Homer Simpson

What does Homer Simpson mean?
Homer Simpson means a person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.
How do you use Homer Simpson in a sentence?
Sample insults calling the recipient a slut, a bookworm, bucktoothed; characterizing them as having a "Homer Simpson gut," a crooked ponytail...
What part of speech is Homer Simpson?
Homer Simpson is a noun.
What is the plural of Homer Simpson?
The plural of Homer Simpson is Homer Simpsons.

Words near Homer Simpson in the dictionary

  1. homer man
  2. homer men
  3. Homer nods
  4. homer pigeon
  5. homer pigeons
  6. Homer Simpson
  7. Homer Simpsonian
  8. Homer Simpsons
  9. Homer sometimes nods
  10. Homer-Wright rosette
  11. Homer-Wright rosettes

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