mi adjective, gam·i·er, gam·i·est.
1.
having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
2.
having the flavor or odor of game or other meat kept uncooked until slightly tainted: The roast was still edible but was slightly gamy.
3.
plucky; spirited.
4.
lewd or suggestive; risqué.
5.
gross or squalid; unwholesome.
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-gamy
a combining form with the meanings “marriage,” “union,” “fertilization, pollination,” of the kind specified by the initial element: exogamy; plastogamy; allogamy; also forming nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -gamous:, heterogamy.
Origin:
combining form representing Greek -gamía act of marrying
combining form representing Greek -gamía act of marrying
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| —adj , gamier, gamiest | |
| 1. | having the smell or flavour of game, esp high game |
| 2. | informal spirited; plucky; brave |
| gamy or gamy | |
| —adj | |
| 'gamily or gamy | |
| —adv | |
| 'gaminess or gamy | |
| —n | |
| -gamy | |
| —n combining form | |
| denoting marriage or sexual union: bigamy | |
| [from Greek -gamia, from gamos marriage] | |
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-gamy suff.
marriage; mate: monogamy.
Procreative or propagative union: heterogamy.
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Example sentences
Parties are daily made up at the hotels to go out after the gamy blues, and few return empty handed.
Our night traveler had been stewed in a clay pot with star anise gravy, which overcame the bird's slightly gamy taste.
People who eat muskrat say its flesh has a moderate gamy flavor that is in no way unpleasant.
For plays that attract a church audience, they're on the gamy side.
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