'Ham' definitions:
Definition of 'ham'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
(Old Testament) son of Noah
noun
A licensed amateur radio operator
noun
An unskilled actor who overacts [syn: ham, ham actor]
verb
Definition of 'Ham'
From: GCIDE
- Ham \Ham\ (h[aum]m), n. Home. [North of Eng.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ham'
From: GCIDE
- Ham \Ham\ (h[a^]m), n. [AS. ham; akin to D. ham, dial. G. hamme, OHG. hamma. Perh. named from the bend at the ham, and akin to E. chamber. Cf. Gammon ham.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking. [1913 Webster]
- A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ham'
From: GCIDE
- Ham \Ham\ (h[a^]m), n.
- 1. [Short for hamfatter.] a person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style; -- used especially of actors. Also used attributively, as, a ham actor. [PJC]
- 2. The licensed operator of an amateur radio station. [PJC]
Definition of 'Ham'
From: GCIDE
- Ham \Ham\ (h[a^]m), v. i. (Theater) To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact. [PJC]
- ham it up to act in a showy fashion or to act so as to attract attention; to ham. [Colloq.] [PJC]
Definition of 'Ham'
From: Easton
- Ham warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black", the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22,24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites.
- One of the most important facts recorded in Gen. 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6, 8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See ACCAD.)
- The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world.
Definition of 'Ham'
From: Hitchcock
- Ham, hot; heat; brown
Synonyms of 'ham'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- actor-proof,
- all-star,
- amateur radio operator,
- ankle,
- ARRL,
- 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