Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The thigh of the hind leg of certain animals, especially a hog.
- n. A cut of meat from the thigh of a hog.
- n. The back of the knee.
- n. The back of the thigh.
- n. The buttocks.
- n. A performer who overacts or exaggerates.
- n. A licensed amateur radio operator.
- v. To overact.
- v. To exaggerate or overdo (a dramatic role, for example).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The back of the thigh; the thigh as a whole; in the plural, the gluteal region; the buttocks.
- n. In anatomy, specifically, the back of the knee; the lozenge-shaped area behind the knee, bounded by the hamstrings and heads of the calf-muscles, technically called the popliteal space.
- n. The thigh of an animal slaughtered for food; particularly, the thigh of a hog salted and cured or dried in smoke.
- n. An obsolete (Middle English and Anglo-Saxon) form of home.
- n. In historical use, with reference to the Anglo-Saxon period, a village or town; more specifically, a manor or private estate with a community of serfs upon it: much used in compound local names, as in Birmingham, Nottingham.
- n. A stinted common pasture for cows.
Wiktionary
- n. An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
- n. An amateur radio operator.
- v. To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
- n. obsolete Archaic spelling of home.
- n. anatomy The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- n. countable The thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat.
- n. uncountable The thigh of a hog cured for food.
- n. The back of the thigh.
- n. Internet, informal Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam, or junk mail
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. North of Eng. Home.
- n. (Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- n. The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
- n. a person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style; -- used especially of actors. Also used attributively, .
- n. The licensed operator of an amateur radio station.
- v. (Theater) To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Old Testament) son of Noah
- n. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- n. an unskilled actor who overacts
- n. a licensed amateur radio operator
- v. exaggerate one's acting
Etymologies
- From Old English hām. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm. N., senses 6 and 7, possibly from ham-fatter, a poor or amateurish actor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's now safe to say whenever "The Good Wife" has an episode with the phrase "ham sandwich" in it, it's going to be a stellar offering.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Harnick: The Good Wife Recap: Alicia Takes -- And Leaves The Stand
“Chester is of Roman origin, tun is of Gaelic; but "ham" is Anglo-Saxon, and means village, whence the sweet word home.”
“Sullivan is now back for more, once again ham-fistedly mixing together sensationalized "controversies" with a shallow understanding of Church teaching and practice.”
“Dead pigs are called ham, bacon, and sausage and dead cows become meat, steaks, and hamburgers.”
The Huffington Post: Marc Bekoff: Babe, Lettuce, and Tomato: You Want a What?
“Not like anything else we've had, but reminiscent of the experience of sampling a superlative prosciutto or culatello, I always thought Jabugo was the word for ham.”
The Huffington Post: Rozanne Gold: The World's Best Ham: It May Be $150/lb But It May Be Worth It
“The ham is calling and the family is getting anxious of why I am not at the table.”
“The strangeness of you not being in B'ham is tempered by the knowledge you're glad to be where you are.”
“Max has decided that honey baked ham is better than Subway ham.”
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“When a ham is placed in their own house without their consent, an objective violation of these rules will have occurred.”
“At any rate, regardless of the reasons, the Christmas ham is definitely something to look forward to every Christmas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ham’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
http://www....swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong, swisher and 323 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 107 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, an...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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These Verbs Are Made of Meat
baconize, baconise, meatpacking, permeate, hambone hambone h..., spam, fillet, shank, mince, beef, chine, flank and 28 more...
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Meat
sausage, pepperoni, pork chop, ham, tongue, fricandeau, veal, tenderloin, mutton, boeuf, terefah, gammon and 33 more...
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Luncheon meats
Because I couldn't help myself. See luncheon.
olive loaf, baloney, salami, ham, roast beef, prosciutto, pimiento loaf, summer sausage, cotto salami, silver star’s blu..., spam, cheese loaf and 18 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ham.

Telofy Email that is not spam; non-spam. (Source) Mar 30, 2011
ruzuzu "6. A stinted common pasture for cows."
--Century Dictionary Mar 9, 2011
missanthropist Dwelling, home, village, &/or estate. Old English Jul 17, 2009
bilby A town hear Sandwich, Kent, England. Jan 1, 2008