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gamy
1[ gey-mee ]
adjective
- having the tangy flavor or odor of game:
I like the gamy taste of venison.
- having the flavor or odor of game or other meat kept uncooked until slightly tainted:
The roast was still edible but was slightly gamy.
- plucky; spirited.
- lewd or suggestive; risqué.
- gross or squalid; unwholesome.
-gamy
2- 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.
-gamy
combining form
- denoting marriage or sexual union
bigamy
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Other Words From
- gami·ly adverb
- un·gamy adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamy2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamy1
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Example Sentences
A few seconds later he landed a delicately spotted, gamy fish about eight inches long, which he recognized as a grayling.
Will the little ogre pass without repugnance from the gamy flavour of a carcase to the scent of flowers?
The mountain quails are the largest and most beautiful of all the American quails, though the least hunted and the least gamy.
Like all of the family it is a gamy fish, and affords good sport to the angler.
This species fights altogether on the surface, but lacks the sterling gamy qualities of the tuna.
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