What is the difference between homer and cor?
homer | cor |
An ancient Hebrew measure of capacity, equal to ten ephahs or ten s, and approximately equal to ten or eleven bushels.
* 1611, ,
* 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses ,
(baseball) A four-base hit; a home run
A homing pigeon
(sports) A person who is extremely devoted to his favorite team.
(baseball) To get a four-base hit; to get a home run.
(British) Expression of surprise.
* Cor blimey!
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=“I don’t get this,” she said. “How do you mean it’s gone?” “It’s been pinched.” “Things don’t get pinched in country-houses.” “They do if there’s a Wilbert Cream on the premises. He’s a klep-whatever-it-is,” I said, and thrust Jeeves’s letter on her. She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.}}
As nouns the difference between homer and cor
is that homer is an ancient Hebrew measure of capacity, equal to ten ephahs or ten baths, and approximately equal to ten or eleven bushels while cor is a Hebrew measure of capacity; a core or homer.As a verb homer
is to get a four-base hit; to get a home run.As a proper noun Homer
is ancient Greek poet; author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.As an interjection cor is
expression of surprise.homer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer', and the ephah the tenth part of an '''homer''': the measure thereof shall be after the ' homer .
- Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.
Etymology 2
From home.Noun
(en noun)- The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
- Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.
- Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.
Verb
(en verb)- The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.