gamy
adjective
having the tangy flavor or odor of game.
gamy
1 American
[gay-mee]
/ ˈgeɪ mi /
Or
gamey
adjective
gamier,
gamiest
-gamy
2
American
-gamy
British
combining form
Usage
What does -gamy mean? The combining form -gamy is used like a suffix with a variety of meanings. In terms from botany, it typically means "fertilization, pollination.“ In other contexts, -gamy is used to mean "marriage" or "union."The form -gamy is also used to form nouns related to terms ending in -gamous. It is often used in scientific terms, especially in biology. The form -gamy comes from Greek -gamía, meaning “act of marrying.”What are variants of -gamy?While -gamy doesn't have any variants, it is related to the form -gamous, as in cleistogamous. Additional combining forms of the same general origin include gamet-, gameto-, and gamo-. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for the forms.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gamy1
First recorded in 1835–45; game 1 + -y 1
Origin of -gamy2
Combining form representing Greek -gamía “act of marrying”
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:
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
Meat offers up a sinewy, gamy, savory experience that is, to date, impossible to reproduce.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Rather than tasting gamy or leathery, this is fresh and juicy, almost like a nouveau.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
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
Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition.
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
James A. Stillman, late National City Banker, heir to millions, and co-star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt.
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
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
But the dog was gamiest of the game, and swallowed hurriedly.
From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
