ham

jamón

Carne de la pata trasera del cerdo, conservada con sal o humo para comerla.

En inglés sencillo: Meat from a pig's back leg, preserved with salt or smoke and eaten as food.

• I had a ham sandwich.
• She added slices of ham to the salad.
• Would you like ham and cheese?

Expresiones frecuentes: ham sandwich, smoked ham, ham and cheese, slice of ham

pernil, pierna

Parte superior de la pata trasera de un cerdo u otro animal, cortada para usarla como carne.

En inglés sencillo: The upper back leg of a pig or another animal, cut off to be used as meat.

• The butcher cut off the ham.
• We bought a fresh ham to roast.
• The farmer salted both hams from the pig.

Sinónimos: haunch

Expresiones frecuentes: whole ham, fresh ham, bone in ham

actor exagerado, histrión

Intérprete que exagera sus emociones o su forma de actuar, a menudo para llamar la atención.

En inglés sencillo: A performer who shows feelings or behaves in an exaggerated way, often to get attention.

• That actor is a real ham.
• She becomes a ham whenever a camera appears.
• The audience loved the old ham's dramatic gestures.

Sinónimos: overactor, show-off

Expresiones frecuentes: a real ham, a terrible ham, ham actor

radioaficionado

Persona que usa equipos de radio para comunicarse con otras personas por afición.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who uses radio equipment to communicate with other people as a hobby.

• My uncle is a radio ham.
• The local hams helped relay emergency messages.
• A ham in Canada answered our signal.

Sinónimos: amateur radio operator

Expresiones frecuentes: radio ham, licensed ham, local ham

parte posterior del muslo

Parte trasera de la zona superior de la pierna de una persona o un animal.

En inglés sencillo: The back part of a person's or animal's upper leg.

• His hams ached after the long ride.
• The horse had strong, muscular hams.
• He rubbed the sore flesh of his ham.

Expresiones frecuentes: muscular ham, sore ham, ham muscles

corva, hueco poplíteo

Zona hundida que se encuentra detrás de la rodilla.

En inglés sencillo: The hollow area at the back of the knee.

• The ham lies behind the knee.
• He felt a sharp pain in his ham.
• The physician examined the hollow of her ham.

Sinónimos: knee pit, popliteal fossa

Expresiones frecuentes: hollow of ham, painful ham, ham of someone

sobreactuar, hacer el payaso

Actuar o expresar emociones de forma exagerada, especialmente para divertir a otros.

En inglés sencillo: To act or show feelings in an exaggerated way, especially to entertain people.

• He loves to ham it up.
• She hammed it up whenever the camera turned toward her.
• Stop hamming it up and play the scene naturally.

Cómo se usa: ham it up (The actors hammed it up for the audience.)

Sinónimos: overact, camp it up

Antónimos: underact

Expresiones frecuentes: ham it up, ham for someone