Homer Simpson

noun

A person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.

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Meanings

nounHomer Simpson (plural Homer Simpsons)

plural Homer Simpsons

  1. A person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.

    Find out if you owe birth to an Albert Einstein or a Homer Simpson!

    2002 December, Weekly World News, volume 24, number 16
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    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

    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

    I struggle to remember even a Homer-Simpson handful of them, even those that arose from my own fevered keyboard.

    2005, Tony Carlson, The How of WOW: A Guide to Giving a Speech that Will Positively Blow 'em Away

    One of the employees, apparently a Homer Simpson prototype, "goosed" the man...

    2009, Todd Tucker, Atomic America

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

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).

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APA

Homer Simpson. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Homer%20Simpson

MLA

“Homer Simpson.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Homer%20Simpson. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Homer Simpson,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Homer%20Simpson.

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