Well, that’s the sense Ruthie (in One Big Happy) makes of an expression unfamiliar to her, and she’s indignant on behalf of the pigeon: It starts with a long-standing verbing of the noun home. From NOAD2: verb home: [no object] (of an animal) return by instinct to its territory after leaving it: a dozen geese homing to their summer nesting … Continue reading The homely pigeon