英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhamfat/

名詞

hamfat (複数形 hamfats)

1. (US, slang, offensive, obsolete) A black person.
2. (US, black slang, obsolete) Something average; a mediocre thing or person, especially a jazz musician.
   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow; Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 49:

     Around the poolroom I defended the guys I felt were my real brothers, the colored musicians who made music that sent me, not a lot of beat-up old hamfats who sang and played a commercial excuse for the real thing.