butter-ham noun3 •a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions. •(no longer used) A slice of buttered bread.Give me a butterham, with flesh, and a half-bottle wine. — 1871 •(no longer used) One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams. — 2003 formsbutter-hams