Meaning of GAMY
| Pronunciation: | | 'geymee
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- [adj] willing to face danger
- [adj] used of the smell of game beginning to taint
- [adj] suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
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| | Synonyms: | | blue, brave, courageous, fearless, game, gamey, gritty, high, juicy, malodorous, mettlesome, naughty, racy, risque, sexy, spicy, spirited, spunky |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gam"y\, a.
1. (Cookery) Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept
uncooked till near the condition of tainting;
high-flavored.
2. (Sporting) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last;
plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.
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| | Related Terms: | | bad, bad-smelling, blown, bulldoggish, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, game, graveolent, gritty, gutsy, gutty, high, high-tasted, ill-smelling, malodorous, mephitic, mettlesome, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nervy, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, off, offensive, olid, pertinacious, plucky, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, red-blooded, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, resolute, rotten, smellful, smelling, smelly, sour, soured, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stale, stenchy, stinking, stinky, strong, strong-flavored, strong-tasting, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, tenacious, tough, turned, vile |
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