| 单词 | ham-bone |
| 释义 | ˈham-bone
1. The bone in a ham of hog meat; also, such a bone with the meat attached. Also (in pl.) transf.
1855W. G. Simms Forayers 340 He had..brought with him the ham-bone and bread which he had so hastily appropriated. 1866‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 111/1 We have only left a lower end of a ham-bone, with some of the outer rind and skin on. 1908J. London Let. 22 Dec. (1966) 275, I have to get down on my ham-bones and beg forgiveness. 1972P. Dickinson Lizard in Cup vi. 97 He found a bone in a trash-can—a bit of ham-bone.
2. An inferior or amateur actor, esp. one who speaks in a spurious Negro accent; a mediocre musician. U.S. slang.
1893P. H. Emerson Signor Lippo v. 11 Hambones! I told you so. I could vardy that when I heard them joggering. 1905W. Melville No Wedding Bells for Her ii. iii, You are green, Ham bones means them as pays to act, which they can't do, and so saves the manager engaging deserving actors. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang. §583/18 Hambone, an unconvincing blackface dialectician. 1960B. Keaton Wonderful World of Slapstick (1967) 13 Because I was also a born hambone, I ignored any bumps..I may have got at first on hearing audiences gasp.
3. A sextant. Naval slang.
1938F. A. Worsley First Voy. in Square-Rigged Ship viii. 144 What altitude have you got on that hambone, Stringer? 1962Granville Dict. Sailor's Slang 58/1 Ham⁓bone, sextant which is of much the same shape. |
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