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📚 name • entry_id 24893

Ham

/hæm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Cam • Châm
A son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.
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📚 noun • entry_id 4791

ham

/ˈhæm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corva • jamón
The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
jamón • lunada • pernil
A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
"I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared.
jamón
Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
a little piece of ham for the cat
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 4792

ham

Meanings (ES + gloss)
comicastro • histriónico
An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, James Wood praised Mr. McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrio…
radioaficionado • radioamador
An amateur radio operator.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 4793

ham

Meanings (ES + gloss)
sobreactuar
To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
Near-synonym: camp it up
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