butter-ham
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Northern English/bʊtəɹam/
butter-ham noun: a slice of buttered bread.
Noun
butter-ham (plural butter-hams)
- A slice of buttered bread.
- Faith, I was within ams-ace of being found out ; for one night at a mum-house, where I was eating a butter-ham and pickled herrings, with some of the states, and where I was giving my self airs of greatness and interest in my country, swearing I myself would take care that my country, and three...1771, Charles Davenant, Charles Whitworth, The Political And Commercial Works, page 240
- Give me a butterham, with flesh, and a half-bottle wine.1871, Lewis Baxter Monroe, Public and Parlor Readings, page 107
- One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.
- A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams.2003, Cynthia Lowenthal, Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, →ISBN, page 89
- a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions.
Forms of butter-ham
| plural | butter-hams |
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Origin of butter-ham
From butter + ham, a calque of Dutch boterham.
Questions about butter-ham
- What does butter-ham mean?
- Butter-ham means a slice of buttered bread.
- What part of speech is butter-ham?
- Butter-ham is a noun.
- How do you pronounce butter-ham?
- Butter-ham is pronounced /bʊtəɹam/ (Northern English).
- What is the plural of butter-ham?
- The plural of butter-ham is butter-hams.
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