gamy
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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
The air is dense with the chattering of shoemakers and the gamy scents of leather and tannin and dye.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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
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His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Here was located a mountain torrent, said to be filled with the gamiest kind of specimens of the finny tribe.
From Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret by Edward Stratemeyer