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HAM

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Traducere în limba română

ham I. substantiv

1. coapsă, şold;

to squat on one’s hams a şedea pe vine.

2. şuncă, jambon;

ham and eggs ouă cu şuncă.

3. plural (fam.) părţile moi, şezut, dos, posterior.

4. (fam.) cabotin, actor prost.

5. joc slab (al actorilor), cabotinism.

6. (radio) radioamator.

7. boxer prost, ageamiu.

ham II. verb tranzitiv

a pune (şunca) la sărat şi afumat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“Growed, Mas'r Davy bor'? Ain't he growed!” said Ham.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Ham was quite as earnest as he.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was,—as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough,—conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Her learning!” said Ham.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Will you write and tell Mr. Peggotty and little Em'ly, and Mrs. Gummidge and Ham, that I am not so bad as they might suppose, and that I sent 'em all my love—especially to little Em'ly?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But I wake when it blows, and tremble to think of Uncle Dan and Ham and believe I hear 'em crying out for help. That's why I should like so much to be a lady.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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