Dictionary Definition
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æmi
Adjective
- resembling ham
- characterized by overacting
Noun
- short for hamstring, a muscle
Extensive Definition
Hammy may refer to:
- Hammy, a hyperactive squirrel character in the comic strip and film Over the Hedge.
- H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell, a faculty member of Phillips Exeter Academy and uncle of John Irving.
- Hammy Love, an Australian cricketer.
- Slang for Hamstring
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
actor-proof, all-star, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic,
dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, emotionalistic, emotive, film, filmic, ham, histrionic, hysteric, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted, overemotional, overplayed, scenic, sensational, sensationalistic,
spectacular,
stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unreasoning, vaudevillian