Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Variant of gamy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A less correct spelling of gamy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
- adj. Plucky, spirited or gritty
- adj. Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety.
- adj. foul-smelling; -- used of the smell of game beginning to taint.
- adj. spirited and resolute.
- adj. willing to proceed or act.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. willing to face danger
- adj. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
- adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety
Etymologies
- game + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Stabbing them to death is foolish because the meat would be too gamey from the adrenaline, and the corn fed pig gives more meat.”
“Things are getting "gamey" - back here in America.”
“A "'gamey'-game" makes sense coming from a single source.”
“The meat was my kind of gamey and it was amazing what a difference hand-rolling pasta will make!”
“One problem with cooking wild duck or goose is that if overcooked which is very easy to do the so-called "gamey" taste folks dislike becomes very pronounced.”
“My husband doesn't like cornish game hens - too "gamey" for him he's not crazy about lamb either - but I'll try this for myself sometime.”
“I love how "gamey" the final product is-- it relies as much on the old-school pixelated tropes of the earliest arcade games as it does on the conventions of titles like GTA3.”
“Similarly, if we're talking about games as a mass medium looking to overthrow Hollywood, aren't "gamey" games which challenge the player to digest and master a unique formal ruleset the wrong way to go?”
“The flavor of grass-fed beef is more distinct than that of grain-fed beef: Critics might call it "gamey," though fans find it herbal and complex.”
“Meh, I was hoping that this build-up would be more 'gamey', like TLE.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gamey’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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Naughty Naughty
gyrate, torrid, by-blow, paramour, cuckold, salacious, philander, john thomas, uxorious, lithe, skivvies, coquet and 56 more...
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onetree's Words
surreptitious, hokey, singular, stunning, bit, loquacious, poinky, gobbets, dither, crochet, gross, hinkey and 53 more...
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mtgentry's Words
rubbish, gamey, malfeisance, shameful, catywompus, stink eye, nonsense
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mtgentry This word never lets me down. Dec 5, 2006