gamy
adjective
having the tangy flavor or odor of game.
gamy
1 American
[gey-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
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Plus, the horror has a purpose, beyond gamy genre thrills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Rabbit has a delectable, earthy, meaty taste that isn’t gamy.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
An intriguing pinot, with intense flavors of cherries, tree bark and a gamy meat on a grill tantalizingly out of sight, all wrapped in silky elegance.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
Three hours later, there was a rank, stubborn, gamy taste in my mouth, and no amount of beer-rinsing or tooth-brushing would get rid of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2018
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
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
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
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
Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
“There’s the gamiest cat in Arizona,” he said, bringing him over to Hardy with conscious pride.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
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