even homer nods
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Horace acknowledges that honeſt Homer''' nods ſometimes: He is not equally awake in every Line: […]"
- "Thoſe are but Stratagems which Errors ſeem, / Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream."
- "He [de Vigneul-Marvin] knows that Homer''' nods sometimes, and that Faults are found in the beſt writers. He is an Author himself, and conſequently may commit an Over-ſight as well as Pindar, Virgil, Horace, and all the moſt celebrated Ancient and Modern Authors."
- "And Homer nods: The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles played in this year's NFC championship, not NFL championship as we said in a Friday follow-up (since corrected)."
Etymology
From even + Homer + nods (“be momentarily inattentive or inaccurate”), alluding to line 359 of Horace’s Ars Poetica indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (“I become annoyed when the great Homer is being drowsy”). The English translation Homer nods has become standard following Pope (1709), but is due to Dryden (1677).
Inflected Forms
even Jove nods (alternative)
even Homer sometimes nods (alternative)
Homer nods (alternative)
Homer sometimes nods (alternative)
Jove nods (alternative)