gamy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.