Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

gamy

[gay-mee] / ˈgeɪ mi /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Rabbit has a delectable, earthy, meaty taste that isn’t gamy.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

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 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

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

Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest.

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

His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some fishermen claim that it is the "prettiest, gamiest, sweetest and choicest" fish of the Lake, and it has been caught weighing as high as twelve pounds.

From The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com