英语词汇“ham”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	ham
释义	ham I. \ˈam\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English (attested only in place names), from Old English hamm; akin to Middle Low German ham enclosed land, Old English hemm border — more at hem now dialect England : a piece of grassland II. \ˈham, -aa(ə)-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm; akin to Old High German hamma popliteal space, thigh, haunch, Old Norse höm haunch, Greek knēmē shinbone, Old Irish cnāim bone, leg 1. a. : the part of the leg behind the knee : the hollow of the knee : popliteal space < such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams — Shakespeare > b. : a buttock with its associated thigh or with the hinder part of a thigh — usually used in plural < squatted submissively on his hams — Joseph Conrad > c. : a hock or the hinder part of a hock 2. a. : the thigh of an animal prepared for food < deer or elk hams — R.R.Camp > especially : the thigh of a hog either fresh or cured by salting and smoking < hams … from … peanut-fed hogs — U.S. Code > — see pork illustration b. : something that resembles such a ham in shape; specifically : a cushion used especially by tailors for pressing curved areas of garments 3. [short for hamfatter] a. : an unskillful but flamboyant performer : exhibitionist, strutter < a wrestling match between a couple of hams > < an oratorical ham > < the basset is a natural ham — Charlotte Paul > especially : an inept or ineffective actor especially in an overtheatrical style < a typical down-and-out vaudeville ham — Bennett Cerf > b. : an inexperienced or incompetent telegraph operator c. : a government-licensed operator of an amateur radio station < once on the air, he got in touch with hams on the mainland and they in turn warned ships away from the dangerous coast — R.B.Gehman > 4. a. : melodrama or mawkish sentimentality : overdone theatricality < a film scenario full of tears and ham — V.S.Pritchett > b. : a tendency to histrionics : theatrical streak < dignity may suffer as the ham emerges in response to the camera's grinding — Walter Goodman > III. adjective 1. : hammy < ham actor > < less ham than its rivals — William Empson > < in all his life he had never been in any situation so corny, so ham — Charles Jackson > 2. : of or relating to amateur radio < ham operator > < ham radio band > < ham shack > IV. verb (hammed ; hammed ; hamming ; hams) *transitive verb* 1. : to execute with exaggerated speech or gestures : overact < spoofed the story and hammed the action — Paul Jaretzki > — often used with up < ham it up in beer-hall fashion — Metronome > 2. : to infuse with melodrama or mawkish sentimentality < the narration was overly hammed in the writing — Billboard > *intransitive verb* : to overplay a part < hams and mugs and … misses most of his best effects by underestimating his own simple power — Virgil Thomson >
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