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Gamy

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Adjective

1. blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy

suggestive of sexual impropriety

Example Sentences:
'a blue movie'
'blue jokes'
'he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details'
'a juicy scandal'
'a naughty wink'
'naughty words'
'racy anecdotes'
'a risque story'
'spicy gossip'

2. gamey, gamy, high

(used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted

3. game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky

willing to face danger

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gamy

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈgamier or ˈgamiest
1. 
having a strong, tangy flavor like that of cooked game
2. 
strong in smell or taste; slightly tainted
3. 
plucky; game
4. 
a. 
risqué or racy
b. 
salacious, coarse, or crude

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gamy

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suff.
1. Marriage: exogamy.
2. Procreative or propagative union: allogamy.
3. The possession of a specified manner of fertilization or specified reproductive organs: apogamy.
adj. gam·i·er, gam·i·est
1.
a. Having the flavor or odor of game, especially game that is slightly spoiled.
b. Ill-smelling; rank.
2. Showing an unyielding spirit; plucky: a gamy little mare that loved to run.
3.
a. Corrupt; tainted: "those considerable forces in America that appear to be tired of the old politics (particularly the gamy municipal variety)" (Tom Wicker).
b. Sordid; seamy.
c. Sexually suggestive; racy.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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