Homer Simpsonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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).

名詞

Homer Simpson (plural Homer Simpsons)

1. 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...

関連する語

• Homer Simpsonian
• pull a Homer

アナグラム

• neomorphisms