Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a ham.

Etymologies

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ham +‎ -like

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Examples

  • And you are the Black Laird of the MacLeans, known for your spitting temper and hamlike fists.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • And you are the Black Laird of the MacLeans, known for your spitting temper and hamlike fists.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • Ye little besom! the giant bellowed, snatching his arm back only to grab her neck with a hamlike hand and use it to lift her clear up off her feet, shaking her like an enraged bull mastiff with an especially annoying rat.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Ye little besom! the giant bellowed, snatching his arm back only to grab her neck with a hamlike hand and use it to lift her clear up off her feet, shaking her like an enraged bull mastiff with an especially annoying rat.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • His eyes met Goad2s, and it was hard to tell what passed between them besides the nod that seemed to end it, as Goad backed into the stand of firs, as Karrock scrambled to his feet and scurried after his commander, none the worse for combat were it not for a bruise noticeable through the dark beard on the left side of his hamlike face.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • And you are the Black Laird of the MacLeans, known for your spitting temper and hamlike fists.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • Dudley raised a large, hamlike hand to point at Harry.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • Dudley raised a large, hamlike hand to point at Harry.

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • In the dining room, many guests were already scooping forkfuls of pancakes, eggs of all sorts, bacon in both its hamlike European style and the more “American” streaky bacon, stewed tomatoes, mushrooms and more into their mouths.

    Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge David Bergantino 2003

  • I would always, always choose cappicola and prosciutto Cotto, which is both sweet and very hamlike.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2003

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