Meaning & use
daisy ham
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Meanings
nouncountableAmerican
A small boneless cut of smoked pork, sold in a sealed bag and usually boiled or baked whole.
Grammar: Countable, so use a/an and a plural: a daisy ham, two daisy hams.
Patterns
- a daisy ham
- cook a daisy ham
- slice a daisy ham
She bought a daisy ham for the family dinner because it was the perfect size.
A daisy ham is usually cooked in its own wrapper, then sliced cold for sandwiches.
The recipe calls for one daisy ham and a jar of mustard sauce.
nouncountableAmericanspecialist
A piece of meat from the shoulder of a pig, shaped into a small round boneless roast.
Grammar: Countable and often used with a modifier: a smoked daisy ham.
Patterns
- a smoked daisy ham
- a boneless daisy ham
The butcher explained that a daisy ham comes from the shoulder and has no bone.
Because a daisy ham is boneless, it is easy to carve into neat slices.
Word forms
| plural | daisy hams |
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Common combinations
- cook a daisy ham
- You can cook a daisy ham in the same pot as the vegetables.
- a smoked daisy ham
- The deli sells a smoked daisy ham that only needs reheating.
- slice a daisy ham
- Let the meat cool before you slice a daisy ham.
- a daisy ham dinner
- Sunday's daisy ham dinner reminded him of his grandmother's cooking.
Synonyms and how they differ
- ham
- Much more general: it can mean any cut of salted or smoked pork from the leg, while a daisy ham is specifically a small boneless shoulder cut.
- picnic ham
- Another American name for a cut from the shoulder, but a picnic ham usually still has the bone in, unlike a daisy ham.
Word family
- ham noun
- Meat from the leg of a pig, eaten smoked, salted, or fresh.
Commonly confused: daisy ham or picnic ham?
daisy ham vs picnic ham
A picnic ham is a shoulder cut that usually contains a bone, while a daisy ham is boneless and much smaller.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'daisy ham' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A daisy ham is a small smoked pork cut that is typically boiled or baked and then sliced, so option 1 fits. Option 0 is wrong because this cut is not a quick grilling steak, and the other options confuse the food word 'ham' with unrelated meanings.
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