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  • adjective comparative form of gamey: more gamey

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Examples

  • Venison ran with dogs would be tougher and gamier from the chase, not to mention shot to hell and back.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • Venison ran with dogs would be tougher and gamier from the chase, not to mention shot to hell and back.

    Deer Hunting with Dogs 2009

  • This Putin stuff is bad news, since nobody in the U.S. apparently likes the gamier meat in legs and thighs.

    Stand Up To Russia And Get Over The Chicken Breasts Josh Ozersky in Time 2011

  • As for the Hollywood characters in his novel Brower said, Much gamier were the fictive characterizations I gave certain folk I'd met on the set of The Raven, such as 'Quincy Adams' or even 'Terry Cowan' as the director/provocateur.

    Brian Joseph Davis: A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns Brian Joseph Davis 2011

  • As for the Hollywood characters in his novel Brower said, Much gamier were the fictive characterizations I gave certain folk I'd met on the set of The Raven, such as 'Quincy Adams' or even 'Terry Cowan' as the director/provocateur.

    Brian Joseph Davis: A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns Brian Joseph Davis 2011

  • ONE BROKE GUY: For a more authentic and even gamier slice of Brooklyn bohemian humor than you're likely to get in the comparatively shrill 2 Broke Girls, MTV premieres the very hip and sexually frantic new comedy I Just Want My Pants Back 11/10c with back-to-back episodes following a new episode of Jersey Shore, where most of the participants long ago forgot where they shed trou and with whom.

    Thursday's TV: Sweeps Begin, and MTV Loses Its Pants 2012

  • “We assume that turkey was part of the legendary groaning board,” Ms. Curtin says, “and we know that it was a small, gamier, wild bird that, like a goose, had no white meat and was cooked by spit roasting if young or braised if older.”

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • Discerning and adventurous American eaters prefer ducks with a gamier flavor than are grown here, so today in an ironic shift, Long island ships two-thirds of its ducks to China.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • Mostly the meat was like the shreds of pulled pork you leave in the crock pot, except gamier, darker, stringier.

    Stefan Beck: The Most Disappointing Game: A Muskrat Ramble in Smyrna, Delaware (PHOTOS) 2010

  • But despite such high-minded coups, Army started out, in the '40s, gathering gamier dish, as a twenty-something who'd had a year on the L.A. AP desk and was hired as the "leg man" for the L.A. Herald Express's Harrison Carroll.

    Sheila Weller: Army Archerd, In Memoriam 2009

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