- 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
Whatever you serve alongside it, choose flavors that complement its gamey depth rather than compete with it.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 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
Many fish varieties found in the Gulf are commonly prepared fried due to their gamey fish taste.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
“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
Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's 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
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 Stratemeyer, Edward
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