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gamey

[ UK /ɡˈe‍ɪmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suggestive of sexual impropriety
    naughty words
    a juicy scandal
    a blue movie
    spicy gossip
    he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
    a risque story
    blue jokes
    a naughty wink
    racy anecdotes
  2. willing to face danger
  3. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted

How To Use gamey In A Sentence

  • Through aisle to hatch, the cleanly wind with ocean special gamey smell blowing my face, spirit got up. Looking up at the hatch, sun is too big, sky is too blue.
  • One problem with cooking wild duck or goose is that if overcooked which is very easy to do the so-called "gamey" taste folks dislike becomes very pronounced. Archive 2009-01-01
  • As with Fiona's beautifully pink lamb, my deeply gamey venison was cooked exactly the way I had asked.
  • Served with a copious amount of herby mayonnaise, it apparently has a gamey taste. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mushrooms go with gamey meats or in a stir-fry and the stems can be used to make a dark, tasty stock. Times, Sunday Times
  • This smashing red will not hang around for long either, so if you fancy a gamey, rustic, plummy wine with a seductive, spicy, perfumed finish, move fast.
  • The chicken was more gamey than I am used to, but full of what Conner calls umami, Japanese for "yumminess". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Less vocal (for reasons of state), Britain's gamesome King Edward VII and gamey King Leopold II of the Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim.
  • My husband doesn't like cornish game hens - too "gamey" for him he's not crazy about lamb either - but I'll try this for myself sometime. Sweet & Spicy Cherry Glazed Game Hens over Wild Rice
  • This has a strong gamey, almost liverlike flavour, which I love.
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