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gamy

[gey-mee] / ˈgeɪ mi /


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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2023

Instead, you get a harmonious porky bite with gamy undertones from the confit rabbit, beef tongue, duck wing meat and offal.

From Seattle Times Apr. 27, 2023

He also added birria to the menu, including goat, the meat that originally inspired Jalisco cooks to design the pungent stew, essentially as a way to mask the gamy flavors of the mature animal flesh.

From Washington Post Nov. 16, 2021

The goat remains the stunner of the menu, impossibly creamy, with a hint of gamy flair.

From New York Times Sep. 5, 2019

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

Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition.

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

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

No item for the children, it is probably the gamiest as well as the wackiest picture of the year�a sort of surrealist, 100-proof binge, skillfully carried through by Julie Harris.

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

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

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison




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