gamy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: gam=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

gamy, a. 

•  Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.  [1913 Webster]
•  Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.  [1913 Webster]
•  Same as gamey.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gamy, adj. (gamier, gamiest)
1 having the flavour or scent of game kept till it is high.
2 US scandalous, sensational.
3 = GAME(1) adj.

Derivative

gamily adv. gaminess n.

THESAURUS

gamy

bad, bad-smelling, blown, bulldoggish, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, game, graveolent, gritty, gutsy, gutty, high, high-tasted, ill-smelling, malodorous, mephitic, mettlesome, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nervy, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, off, offensive, olid, pertinacious, plucky, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, red-blooded, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, resolute, rotten, smellful, smelling, smelly, sour, soured, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stale, stenchy, stinking, stinky, strong, strong-flavored, strong-tasting, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, tenacious, tough, turned, vile

ROGET THESAURUS

gamy

Taste

N taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.

Pungency

N pungency, piquance, piquancy, poignancy haut-gout, strong taste, twang, race, sharpness, acrimony, roughness, unsavoriness, mustard, cayenne, caviare, seasoning, niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness), carbonate of ammonia, sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts, hartshorn (acridity), dram, cordial, nip, nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke, segar, cigar, cigarette, weed, fragrant weed, Indian weed, Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy, pungent, strong, high-, full-flavored, high-tasted, high-seasoned, gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy, biting, mordant, spicy, seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, rough, unsavory.