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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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