- a variation of gamy.
gamey
Americanadjective
adjective
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having the smell or flavour of game, esp high game
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informal spirited; plucky; brave
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In medieval England, venison with its gamey taste was highly prized by the aristocracy.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
We add two zinfandels, a wine that has a special place in California history and shows an affinity for the gamey, fruity smorgasbord of flavors in a Thanksgiving feast.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
Upgrade again to raised-in-Spain-on-a-diet-of-acorns Iberico for an outstandingly soft, moist, almost hammy, nearly gamey, faintly nutty taste-and-texture sensation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
"The sheep's peculiar diet gives their meat a fuller, more gamey flavour," shouts Alison over the gusts.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2020
“What else? Chicken. Real gamey chicken. If that’s the case, we don’t need to fix the fence; just set up a trap,” Uncle Jet said.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
The Victorians found the picture gamier than we would.
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
As a crusading managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, he nosed out some of the gamiest scandals Chicago has spawned.
From Time Magazine Archive
His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout this area are numerous crystal-clear mountain streams and sylvan lakes, thronged with an ever-increasing supply of the gamiest mountain trout found anywhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is the most wide-awake and gamiest man I know.
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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