hambone
[ham-bohn]
- (especially in vaudeville) a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped black dialect.
Show More
Origin of hambone
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for hambone
Contemporary Examples
That one made me laugh because I felt like such a hambone pantomiming.
Beck is an entertainer, and he does his job with hambone energy and handfuls of self-mockery.
Historical Examples
The first thing Hambone did was to go to the back of the wagon for the jar.
S.O.S. Stand to!Reginald Grant
Reynolds did as directed and Hambone ducked for cover and the wagon stood stock still.
S.O.S. Stand to!Reginald Grant
Our glee was positively fiendish next day when watching Hambone wriggling uneasily in his clothes at parade.
S.O.S. Stand to!Reginald Grant
A minute or two elapsed and no explosion taking place, Hambone rejoined the wagon and the party proceeded.
S.O.S. Stand to!Reginald Grant
They'd rather fight en a yaller dawg likes fo' to worry a hambone.
Isle o' DreamsFrederick F. Moore
Word Origin and History for hambone
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper