英语词汇ham的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ham. Actors prefer to think that this word derives from the old theatrical use of ham fat to remove blackface makeup— actors were thus called hamfatters, or hams. Many scholars lean to this theory, but ham in the sense of an amateur actor or a 10th-rate actor who outrageously overplays his scenes has enough folk etymologies to make a one-act play. Since none really seems capable of absolute proof, I’ll simply list three: 1) Ham derives from the Cockney slang hamateur, for “amateur actor.” (Unlikely, as the term ham in this sense is American from about 1880.) 2) The word structure of ama- teur itself suggested ham. (A good possibility, but why did it wait so long to suggest itself?) 3) It comes from the role of Hamlet, which actors frequently misperformed. (Another good possibility, but, if so, ham should have been with us since Shakespeare’s time.) Ham for one of the rear quarters of a hog, or its meat, derives from Old English hamm for the bend of the knee.

词汇	ham
词源	ham. Actors prefer to think that this word derives from the old theatrical use of ham fat to remove blackface makeup— actors were thus called hamfatters, or hams. Many scholars lean to this theory, but ham in the sense of an amateur actor or a 10th-rate actor who outrageously overplays his scenes has enough folk etymologies to make a one-act play. Since none really seems capable of absolute proof, I’ll simply list three: 1) Ham derives from the Cockney slang hamateur, for “amateur actor.” (Unlikely, as the term ham in this sense is American from about 1880.) 2) The word structure of ama- teur itself suggested ham. (A good possibility, but why did it wait so long to suggest itself?) 3) It comes from the role of Hamlet, which actors frequently misperformed. (Another good possibility, but, if so, ham should have been with us since Shakespeare’s time.) Ham for one of the rear quarters of a hog, or its meat, derives from Old English hamm for the bend of the knee.
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