ham — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

2. A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.

   Uso

   • numerabile

   Termini più generali

   cutmeatfood

   Esempi

   "I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared.

3. Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Termini più generali

   meatfood

   Esempi

   a little piece of ham for the cat

   She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.

4. The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.

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   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

5. Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.

   Uso

   • Internet
   • numerabile
   • informale
   • poco comune
   • non numerabile

   Sinonimi

   ham e-mail

   Contrari

   spamjunk mail

Sostantivo

1. An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.

   Sinonimi

   hambonehamfatteroveractortear-cat

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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 histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.”

2. An amateur radio operator.

   Sinonimi

   radio amateur

Verbo

1. To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

   Sinonimi

   ham it upchew the scenerymelodramatizeoveracttear a catcamp it up

   Parole correlate

   mugposego ham

   Esempi

   Near-synonym: camp it up

Sostantivo

1. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

   Sinonimi

   jambongammon

   Termini più generali

   cut of pork

2. a licensed amateur radio operator

   Termini più generali

   radio operator

3. an unskilled actor who overacts

   Sinonimi

   ham actor

   Termini più generali

   actorhistrionplayerthespianrole player

Verbo

1. exaggerate one's acting

   Sinonimi

   overactham it upoverplay

   Termini più generali

   actplayroleplayplayact