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paying homage to the porcelain goddess 

The ritual of getting on one's knees and discharging the smelly contents of the stomach into the toilet.
I was paying much homage to the porcelain goddess this morning because I drank too much of the Beast.
n. a word used in the entertainment industry to mean a respectful reference or tribute to someone or something else in the industry; for example, a remake film might make an hommage to the original.

The word is pronounced "oe-MAZH". Originally the word was one and the same as homage (pronounced "OM-ij" or "HOM-ij"), but filmmakers started thinking this word ("homage") was borrowed from French (which it is not), and wanted to sound sophisticated or more accurate, so they started pronouncing it as though it were French. When the people tasked with writing things down realized you couldn't spell the sound "oe-MAZH" as "homage", they wisely decided to use the French version of the word ("hommage"), and thus filmmakers avoided scathing ridicule for not knowing how to pronounce an honest English word.
Lady Gaga makes an hommage to Alfred Hitchcock in her song "Bad Romance" by saying, "I want your psycho, your vertigo schtick—want you in my rear window, baby you're sick."
hommage by spadlunk May 1, 2010
"Jane, why don't you break up with Steve?" said Helen.
"Not just yet, he still has a few months good humpageleft in him" replied Jane.
humpage by tastefullysmutty March 5, 2009
it is a hoe with awesomely epic powers of sex, like a mage.
Guy 1 " Dude that girl last night totally just kept me going all night last night. I didn't know her but it was like i was under some awesomely power of sex"

Guy 2 "Dude she was a homage"
homage by That Chubby Fellow August 16, 2011

making an homage 

1) Like the great artist Nick Simmons is prone to do, making homages to the magma that inspired him to create Incarnate

2) blatantly tracing artwork
It's not art theft if you change a character's hair color -- it's making an homage.
making an homage by morceaux March 1, 2010
n. an honor, tribute, or respectful reference to someone or something.

The word is pronounced "OM-ij" or "HOM-ij", not "oe-MAZH", as is popular in the entertainment industry. This erroneous pronunciation came about when people starting thinking the word was French and wanted to sound sophisticated. The word is not French. It comes from Middle English, then from Old French, which was not pronounced the same as modern French. The French word for homage is "hommage" (with two m's).
The remake made an homage to the original by casting the heroine from the old film as the heroine's mother in the new film.
homage by spadlunk May 1, 2010