Meaning of butter-ham | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slice of buttered bread.
   obsolete
2. One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.
   archaic
3. a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions.
   North, Yorkshire

Examples

“Faith, I was within ams-ace of being found out ; for one night at a mum-house, where I was eating a butter-ham and pickled herrings, with some of the states, and where I was giving my self airs of greatness and interest in my country, swearing I myself would take care that my country, and three counties round about me, should choose none but hearty Whigs.”

“Give me a butterham, with flesh, and a half-bottle wine.”

“A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams.”

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