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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

Words linked to "Gamey" : malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, sexy, ill-smelling, stinky, malodorous, courageous, brave