| 单词 | hamfat man |
| 释义 | > as lemmashamfat man hamfatter n. U.S. slang an ineffective actor or performer; (also hamfat) a mediocre jazz musician; so hamfat man, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor by manner of performance tear-mouth1616 tear-throat1620 spouter1750 stick1801 gagger1871 facialist1877 fake1880 hamfatter1880 ham1882 mugger1892 ham-bone1893 upstager1933 rhubarber1953 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician > types of faker1903 swing man1903 honky-tonker1910 Chicagoan1924 stomper1925 Dixielander1927 modernist1932 swinger1934 ride man1935 all-star1937 swingster1937 hamfat1938 mouldy fig1945 traditionalist1949 trad1951 West Coaster1954 mainstreamer1961 soulster1961 New Thinger1964 1880 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1882) I. iv. 66 Every American who does not wish to be thought ‘small potatoes’ or a ‘ham-fatter’ or a ‘corner loafer’. 1889 Cent. Dict. Hamfatter,..a term of contempt for an actor of a low grade, as a negro minstrel. Said to be derived from an old-style negro song called ‘The Ham-fat Man’. 1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 20 Hamfatter, loudly-dressed and loudly-decorated dude. 1938 N.Y. Amsterdam News 12 Mar. 17 The Harlem Hamfats grind out the tune. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 58 A lot of beat up old hamfats..sang and played. 1959 S. B. Charters Country Blues 86 The singing of these little ‘hamfat’ bands never reached the artistic intensity of men like Blind Lemon. 1966 New Yorker 11 June 160/2 Most of the musicians playing in these clubs are old men... They're hamfat musicians. In the old days, the rough musicians kept pieces of ham fat in their pockets to grease the slides of their trombones. < as lemmas |
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