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gamy

[gey-mee] / ˈgeɪ mi /


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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

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 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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Here was located a mountain torrent, said to be filled with the gamiest kind of specimens of the finny tribe.

From Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret by Edward Stratemeyer




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