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adjective

gamey adj.

Suggestive of sexual impropriety; as, he skips asterisks and gives you the gamey details.

Synonyms: blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy, sexy.

Foul-smelling; used of the smell of game beginning to taint.

Synonyms: gamy, high.

Spirited and resolute.

Synonyms: game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky.

Willing to proceed or act.

Synonyms: game.

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Etymology of 'Gamey'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gamey" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a great thump, the cock of the northern woods, and you have one of the prizes man gets by slaying. But this is only in the wood. In the open it is quite another thing. What a toothsome bird, too, is your ruffed grouse, how plump and yet gamey to the taste! You must know how to cook him, though. He must be broiled, split open neatly and well larded with good butter, for not so juicy even as the quail is the ruffed grouse, and he must have aid. But, broiled and buttered and seasoned, well, what ...

— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo

... about the ashes of the dead fire left behind by some party that had recently been there, until the trout had been deliciously cooked and eaten. All of them declared that they had never tasted finer flavored fish than those big gamey fellows of that Far North river. It really seemed that the further they journeyed toward the Arctic Circle the ...

— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson

Words linked to "Gamey" : courageous, malodorous, blue, gritty, ill-smelling, juicy, risque, racy, sexy, spunky, high, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling