Jambon

Definition: Jambon

Jambon

Noun

1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).

Date "jambon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)

Specialty Definition: Jambon

Domain	Definition
Literature	Jambon A gun, so called from its fanciful resemblance to a "betterave" or jambon. The botanical name of the root is melochia. "What would you do to me, brigand? ... Give me fifty blows of a matraque, as your officer gave you last week for stealing his jambon?" - Ouida: Under Two Flays, chap. xvi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Jambon

Synonyms: gammon (n), ham (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Jambon

Non-English Usage: "Jambon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (ham), Romanian (ham), Turkish (ham), Vietnamese (gammon).

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Modern Usage: Jambon

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Un soulier pour un jambon (1906)

Jambon d'Ardenne (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Jambon

"Jambon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jambon" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jambon

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
jambon	16
jambon persille	3
au cake jambon	2
jambon recette	2
bayonne de jambon	2
au jambon tarte	2
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Anagrams: Jambon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-j-m-n-o"
	-1 letter: banjo.
	-2 letters: ambo, jamb, mano, moan, noma.
	-3 letters: abo, bam, ban, boa, jab, jam, job, man, moa, mob, mon, nab, nam, nob, nom.
	-4 letters: ab, am, an, ba, bo, jo, ma, mo, na, no, om, on.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-j-m-n-o"
	+1 letter: jobname.
	+2 letters: jobnames.
	+4 letters: sjamboking.
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