ham
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Noun (4)hams
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)Synonyms: jambongammonType of cut of porkKinds Virginia ham, prosciutto
- (Old Testament) the second son of NoahInstance of man, adult male
- a licensed amateur radio operatorType of radio operator
- an unskilled actor who overactsSynonyms: ham actorType of actor, histrion
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Translations
Noun thigh of a hog cured for food
- Spanish
- jamón
- French
- jambon
- German
- Schinken
- Italian
- prosciutto
- Portuguese
- presunto
- Turkish
- jambon
- Russian
- ветчина́ vetčiná
- Arabic
- جَامْبُون jāmbūn
- Chinese
- 火腿 huǒtuǐ
- Japanese
- ハム hamu
32 more languages
- Dutch
- ham
- Polish
- szynka
- Swedish
- skinka
- Greek
- ζαμπόν zampón
- Korean
- 햄 haem
- Indonesian
- ham
- Vietnamese
- giăm bông
- Hungarian
- sonka
- Portuguese (PT)
- presunto
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 火腿 huǒtuǐ
- Albanian
- proshutë
- Catalan
- pernil
- Czech
- šunka
- Danish
- skinke
- Esperanto
- ŝinko
- Estonian
- sink
- Finnish
- kinkku
- Georgian
- შაშხი šašxi
- Hebrew
- שִׁינְקֵן shínken
- Icelandic
- skinka
- Kurdish
- jambon
- Latvian
- šķiņķis
- Lithuanian
- kumpis
- Norwegian
- skinke
- Romanian
- șuncă
- Scottish Gaelic
- hama
- Serbo-Croatian
- šunka
- Slovak
- šunka
- Slovenian
- šunka
- Swahili
- hemu
- Welsh
- ham
- Yiddish
- שינקע shinke
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Home. North of Eng. Geoffrey Chaucer
Origin: AS. ham; akin to D. ham, dial. G. hamme, OHG. hamma. Perh. named from the bend at the ham, and akin to E. chamber. Cf. Gammon ham.
1. Anatomy The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
2. The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.— William Shakespeare
Origin: Short for hamfatter.
1. ETY a person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style; — used especially of actors. Also used attributively, as, a ham actor.
2. The licensed operator of an amateur radio station.
Theater To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact.
ham it up to act in a showy fashion or to act so as to attract attention; to ham. colloquial
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
The Jargon File
The opposite of spam, sense 3; that is, incoming mail that the user actually wants to see.