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gamy

[gey-mee] / ˈgeɪ mi /


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Lamb is pretty gamy, but I love the specific flavor lamb brings to any dish.

From Seattle Times Mar. 15, 2022

The lean, gamy meat is popular with bodybuilders and the health-conscious.

From Washington Post Apr. 15, 2021

The gamy crime comedy “High on the Hog” rips off two kinds of “grindhouse” — the actual low-budget exploitation pictures of yore, and Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s stylishly ironic 2007 homage.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2019

Three hours later, there was a rank, stubborn, gamy taste in my mouth, and no amount of beer-rinsing or tooth-brushing would get rid of it.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2018

But lugging all those buckets of water up to the house was hard work, and I would put off bathing until I was feeling pretty gamy.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup, usually made with beef or chicken — but turkey adds a rich, gamier spin on the comforting classic.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2021

This blend works best on darker, gamier meat like turkey, duck, and goose.

From Salon Nov. 2, 2021

Here they have morphed into something glitzier and gamier.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2018

Ripening mounds of garbage, growing ever gamier in the hot summer sun, piled up next to the city's famed row houses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The quail egg Runt had brought was smaller, its speckled shell flecked with dried grass, and it smelled gamier than the ones his humans ate.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

R. 26—This proved so far the gamiest round in the fight, give and take being the order of the day, but Marr finally proved himself high cock-a-lorum, and won the round.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2019

His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest.

From Time Magazine Archive

James A. Stillman, late National City Banker, heir to millions, and co-star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout this area are numerous crystal-clear mountain streams and sylvan lakes, thronged with an ever-increasing supply of the gamiest mountain trout found anywhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the dog was gamiest of the game, and swallowed hurriedly.

From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy




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