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gamy

[gay-mee] / ˈgeɪ mi /


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Meat offers up a sinewy, gamy, savory experience that is, to date, impossible to reproduce.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2020

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

Still the gamier, scandalous side of presidential families most concerns and entertains Americans.

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

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

Business—just plain everyday business—is the gamiest, chanciest, most thrilling line there is to-day, and I'm for it.

From Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber




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