Found 3 hits - Term: gamy, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gamy \gam"y\, a.
1. cookery having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept
uncooked till near the condition of tainting;
high-flavored.
1913 webster
2. sporting showing an unyielding spirit to the last;
plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.
1913 webster
3. same as gamey.
pjc -- gam"iness, n.
see also:
gamey gam"iness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
gamy
adj 1: 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" syn: blue, gamey, juicy, naughty,
racy, risque, spicy
2: used of the smell of game beginning to taint syn: gamey,
high
3: willing to face danger syn: game, gamey, gritty, mettlesome,
spirited, spunky
also: gamiest, gamier
see also:
blue gamey juicy naughty racy risque
spicy high game gritty mettlesome
spirited spunky gamiest gamier
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
74 moby thesaurus words for "gamy":
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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