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727. Ham Up - GRE Vocabulary - Ham Up / Ham it Up / Ham / A Ham actor / A Radio Ham

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2023. 2. 4.
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Ham Up ( Ham it Up ) : (연기자/아이들/친구들) 과장된 행동을 하다, 과장된 연기를 하다, 서투르게 과장된 연기를 하다
Ham : (돼지 넓적다리 부위를 소금에 절이거나 훈제한 것) 햄, (특히 과잉 연기를 하는) 서투른 배우,  아마추어 무선 통신사,  (다리 무릎 뒷부분의) 오금줄, 햄스트링, (영국의 옜날) 집

A ham actor :  (특히 과잉 연기를 하는) 서투른 배우
A radio ham :  아마추어 무선 통신사

 

 

1)
firstly, Ham is our preserved meat from the back leg, particularly of a pig 
you can cure ham by boiling it, by smalking it, by curing it in salt. there are all sorts of ways

 

 

2)
let's see, you could call an actor a ham or a ham actor 
this is a performer who overacts or they over exaggerate things

a footballer, when he falls over he hams it up, he is pretending that it's the worst injury that could ever have happended. footballers are very good at hamming it up, I guess they are ham actors

let's see, if you call an actor a ham, you are being insulting that they are overacting that they'are not a good actor
but kids hamming it up for the camera, exaggerating things to making it funny
an anctor who is not very professional and who exaggerates or overdoes their act 
they perform with much too obviously. they are too obvious they are acting


they ham it up, to overdo a dramatic role
very often very young kids, they are very funny when they ham things up. they make them are funny but they exaggerate things by me and make it funny
in an exaggerated or playful way 
whenever I made videos of my friend, she always liked to ham it up for the camera
to act in an exaggerated way
to perform when people are watching 
act in a showy way to make people laugh but this is in generally with friends
to go over the top
to make a performance seem silly by showing off or exaggerating your part

 

3)
you can also have a radio ham 
this is somebody who operate, a radio operator
somebody whoes hobby is to use radios

 

 

4)
I guess you could also use this word, a ham to talk about the back part of your leg or your bottom
a hamstring, the muscles that goes down the back of your leg

 

 

5)

and, ham is an old word for home 

you see in many place name, for example Nottingham, Cheltenham, Evesham, Birmingham

there are lots of English place names that ends in ham 

 

 



Formality : 5 for ham to eat
Formality : 5.5 for ham actor
Formality : 4.5 for ham it up
Formality : 5 for a radio ham

 

 

 

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