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Homer Simpson
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Etymology
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).
Noun
Homer Simpson (plural Homer Simpsons)
- A person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.
- 2001, Brent Peterson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to RVing:
- 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.
- 2002 December, Weekly World News, volume 24, number 16:
- Find out if you owe birth to an Albert Einstein or a Homer Simpson!
- 2004, Serge P Shohov, Frank H Columbus, Advances in Psychology Research:
- Sample insults calling the recipient a slut, a bookworm, bucktoothed; characterizing them as having a "Homer Simpson gut," a crooked ponytail...
- 2005, Tony Carlson, The How of WOW: A Guide to Giving a Speech that Will Positively Blow 'em Away:
- I struggle to remember even a Homer-Simpson handful of them, even those that arose from my own fevered keyboard.
- 2009, Todd Tucker, Atomic America:
- One of the employees, apparently a Homer Simpson prototype, "goosed" the man...
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