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Exaggerated on stage
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hammy
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Word definitions for hammy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Christopher Plummer is great too as a hammy , Shakespeare-spouting Klingon warlord. ▪ Now, in the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool. ▪ The film, although ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. affectedly dramatic; overacted [also: hammiest , hammier ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling ham. 2 Amateurish; characterized by overacting. n. (context US Australia NZ chiefly sports slang English) (short for hamstring dot=; English) a hamstring injury.
Usage examples of hammy.
The men bellowed when customers or merchants got in their way, and neither hesitated to apply a hammy fist to ease their passage.
He opted to stay down, but a hammy hand grabbed his mended doublet and yanked him up.
Cal watched him move from table to table, watched his face run a gamut of hammy theatrical expressions, each one donned and doffed like a Commedia del Arte mask.