Ham

Noun

 * 1)  The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
 * 2) (countable) The thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat.
 * 3)  The thigh of a hog cured for food.
 * 4) The back of the thigh.
 * 5) An actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
 * 6) A person whose hobby is ham radio.

Derived terms

 * ham-fisted
 * hambone
 * hammy, hamstring

Verb

 * 1) To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

Related terms

 * ham it up

Thesaurus
ARRL, acting, actor-proof, all-star, amateur radio operator, ankle, bacon, ballet, balletic, bayonet legs, be theatrical, bowlegs, buffoonery, business, butt, calf, characterization, chitterlings, cinematic, cinematographic, cnemis, cochon de lait, control engineer, country town, cracklings, crossroads, declaim, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, drumstick, emote, emotionalize, fat back, film, filmic, flitch, foreleg, gag, gamb, gambrel, gammon, gigot, grimace, grimacer, gush, ham actor, ham it up, ham steak, hamlet, hammy, hammy acting, haslet, headcheese, hind leg, histrionic, hock, hoke, hokum, impersonation, jamb, jambon, jambonneau, knee, lard, leg, legitimate, limb, make a scene, melodramatic, milked, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mixer, monitor, monodramatic, movie, mug, mummery, operatic, out-herod Herod, overact, overacted, overacting, overdramatize, overplayed, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, playacting, playing, podite, popliteal space, pork, porkpie, portrayal, projection, radio electrician, radio engineer, radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher, radiotrician, rant, representation, roar, salt pork, scenic, scissor-legs, sentimentalize, shank, shin, side of bacon, slapstick, slobber over, slop over, small ham, sowbelly, spectacular, spout, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, stems, stumps, stunt, suckling pig, taking a role, tarsus, theaterlike, theatrical, theatricalize, thespian, thorp, throw away, thrown away, trotters, underact, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillian, village, wick

Etymology 1
c. 1637, hamme:, from  hamm: 'bend of the knee', from  (compare Dutch ham:, German dialect Hamme:), from pre-Germanic *konɘmā, from  'shin' (compare Middle Irish cnáim: 'bone', Ancient Greek knḗmé: 'shinbone'). Compare gammon.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/h{m/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/h{m/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/h{m/}}

Etymology 2
ham:.

Noun

 * Dutch: knieboog
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino:


 * Finnish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Tagalog: puwit


 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 火腿
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skinke
 * Dutch:, hesp
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ζαμπόν
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ハム
 * Korean: 햄
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: hemu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: xomúnenemą


 * Greek: ιγνύς
 * Russian:


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Greek: άσχετος
 * Japanese: 大根, 大根役者


 * Polish: kabotyn


 * Czech:, radioamatérka
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ραδιοερασιτέχνης


 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * : 火腿 (huǒ tuǐ)
 * : shinko


 * : gambon (2)

Anagrams

 * HMA, mah, MHA

Etymology
Of origin, probably

Noun

 * 1) village

Derived terms

 * hamelet

Etymology
hamus:.

Noun

 * 1) fishhook

Etymology 1
From hamr:.

Noun

 * 1) slough, skin

Derived terms

 * fjederham
 * hamskifte
 * snogeham
 * svaneham

Etymology 2
See.

Pronoun

 * 1)  objective case of

Noun

 * 1) ham

Pronunciation

 * or

Noun

 * 1) village

Pronoun

 * 1) him

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with Middle Dutch hamme: (Dutch ham:), Old High German hamma: (dialectal German Hamm:), Old Norse hǫm:.

Noun

 * 1)  ham, inner knee
 * Monegum men gescrincaþ his fet to his homme: with many men the feet shrink up to the knee. (Leechbook)

Descendants

 * English ham

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with Old Frisian ham:, Middle Low German hamme: (Low German hamm:).

Noun

 * 1) enclosure, especially an enclosed pasture or dwelling

Etymology 3
From, from. Cognate with Old Frisian ham:, Old Saxon hem: (Dutch heem:), Old High German heim: (German Heim:), Old Norse heimr: (Swedish hem:), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃:. The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek κωμη:, Old Irish cóim:, Lithuanian šeima:, Russian семья:.

Noun

 * 1) home, house; property, estate
 * Hælend com to Lazares ham: the Saviour came to the home of Lazarus.

Descendants

 * Standard English home
 * Northumbrian and Scots hame

Noun

 * 1) work

Etymology
Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

 * 1) woof, the sound a barking dog makes

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) raw