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Gamey

adjective

Suggestive of sexual impropriety. Synonyms: blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy. "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"

(used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted. Synonyms: gamy, high.

Willing to face danger. Synonyms: game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky.

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"Gamey" Quotes from Famous Books

... long lounge in the library car a well-nourished lawyer lay sleeping in a way that I had not dreamed a political lawyer could sleep. One gamey M.P.—double P, I was told—had been robbing this same lawyer of a good deal of rest recently, and he was trying at a mile a minute to catch up with his sleep. I could feel the sleeper slam her ...

— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

... Before you have time to entertain anxiety concerning the length of your line, the fish rises into the air in a succession of leaps. Since he is quite certain to be four feet long or over, the sport of landing so gamey a fish can be realized. When hooked, he invariably turns golden. The idea of the series of leaps is to rid himself of the hook, and the man who has made the strike must be of iron or decadent if his heart does not beat with an extra flutter when he beholds such gorgeous fish, glittering in golden ...

— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London