Ham vs Baloney - What's the difference?
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(anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
(countable) A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.
(uncountable) Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.
* (rfdate), Audra Lilly Griffeth, A King's Daughter (ISBN 146915532X):
The back of the thigh.
(internet, informal) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
An amateur radio operator.
To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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(uncountable, chiefly, US, slang) Nonsense.
In countable terms the difference between ham and baloney
is that ham is a thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat while baloney is a type of smoked sausage; bologna.As nouns the difference between ham and baloney
is that ham is the region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock while baloney is a type of smoked sausage; bologna.As a verb ham
is to overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.As a proper noun Ham
is a son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.As an initialism HAM
is his Apostolic Majesty, the title given to a number of historical kings of Hungary.ham
English
(wikipedia ham)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hamme, from (etyl) . Compare gammon.Noun
(en noun)- a little piece of ham for the cat
- She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
Derived terms
* ham-fisted * hambone * hammy, hamstringEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Usage notes
* Persists in many old place names, such as (Buckingham).References
*Etymology 3
Shortened from , said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man ."ham", Online Etymology Dictionary
