What does butter-ham mean?
Butter-ham means (obsolete) A slice of buttered bread..
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/bʊtəɹam/ · noun
(obsolete) A slice of buttered bread..
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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Butter-ham means (obsolete) A slice of buttered bread..
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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.
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