ham vs stilted

ham

verb
  • To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. 

noun
  • An amateur radio operator. 

  • A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat. 

  • Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail. 

  • An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style. 

  • The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. 

  • The back of the thigh. 

  • Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food. 

stilted

adj
  • Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements. 

  • Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts. 

  • Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts (“supporting pillars or posts”); also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure. 

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