Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

    Kniekehle

    бедро́bedró, ля́жкаljážka

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

    Schinken

    о́корокókorok

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

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

    a little piece of ham for the cat

    Schinken

    о́корокókorok, ветчина́vetčiná, хамо́нxamón

    о́корокókorok, ши́нкаšýnka, о́кістókist

  4. (countable, uncountable)The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.

    ветчина́vetčiná

  5. (Internet, countable, informal, uncommon, uncountable)Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.

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

    Schmierenkomödiant, Schmierenschauspieler

    позёрpozjór

  7. An amateur radio operator.

    Amateurfunker, Amateurfunkerin, Funkamateur

    радиолюби́тельradioljubítelʹ

    a licensed amateur radio operator

Examples

129 sentences
  1. He likes ham and eggs.

    Він любить яєчню з яловичиною.

    ruОн любит яичницу с ветчиной.

    deEr mag Schinken und Eier.

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  2. I like ham.

    Я полюбляю шинку.

    ruЯ люблю ветчину.

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  3. I made you a ham sandwich.

    ruЯ сделал тебе бутерброд с ветчиной.

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  4. The ham sandwiches were really good.

    ruБутерброды с ветчиной были очень хороши.

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  5. They don't eat sausage or ham.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
thigh of a hog cured for food:
Русский
By meaning 5
region back of the knee joint:
thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat:
thigh of a hog cured for food:
actor with an exaggerating style:
ham radio operator:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
region back of the knee joint:
thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat:
actor with an exaggerating style:
ham radio operator:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the kne

Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-West Germanic *hammu, from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).

Uncertain, though it is generally agreed upon that it first appeared in print around the 1880s. At least four theories persist:

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