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gamy

[gay-mee] / ˈgeɪ mi /


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Plus, the horror has a purpose, beyond gamy genre thrills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Rather than tasting gamy or leathery, this is fresh and juicy, almost like a nouveau.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021

The chorizo and the gamy lamb were too dry and lean.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2020

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

Up to five months ago, when he became the central figure in the gamiest Washington scandal in years, Baker was secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a crusading managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, he nosed out some of the gamiest scandals Chicago has spawned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not long after her husband, Robert John Herwig, an All-America footballer, brought home a book on King Charles II, she decided to write a novel about the reign of Britain's gamiest monarch.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so naturally they fell to recounting the splendid catches of the gamiest fish in water.

From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher




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