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Definitions: Gamey |
GameyAdjective1. Suggestive of sexual impropriety; "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. Used of the smell of game beginning to taint. 3. Willing to face danger. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gamey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: GameySynonyms: blue (adj), game (adj), gamy (adj), gritty (adj), high (adj), juicy (adj), mettlesome (adj), naughty (adj), racy (adj), risque (adj), spicy (adj), spirited (adj), spunky (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gamey |
| English words defined with "gamey": hang. (references) |
| "Gamey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gamey" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "gamey": gamey-flavoured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gamey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ameygay.(various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งมีกลิ่นฉุน. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-y" | |
-1 letter: game, gamy, mage. | |
-2 letters: age, aye, gae, gam, gay, gem, gey, gym, mae, mag, may, meg, yam, yea. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag, am, ay, em, ma, me, my, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-y" | |
+1 letter: gamely, gleamy, maguey, mangey. | |
+2 letters: exogamy, imagery, kerygma, magueys, pygmean, yeggman. | |
+3 letters: amygdale, amygdule, amylogen, bogeyman, demagogy, embaying, endogamy, ganymede, geomancy, gramarye, gramercy, hogmenay, kerygmas, mangabey, meagerly, meagrely, mealybug, megabyte, megacity, megadyne, moneybag, pygmaean, xenogamy. | |
+4 letters: amygdalae, amygdales, amygdules, amylogens, boogeyman, clergyman, ganymedes, geminally, germanely, gossamery, gramaryes, gynaeceum, gynaecium, hogmenays, hypergamy, kerygmata, mangabeys, mealybugs, meaningly, megabytes, megacycle, megadynes, moneybags, syngamies, yammering. | |
+5 letters: acromegaly, amnestying, demography, gamesomely, gametocyte, gendarmery, germinally, gladsomely, gravimetry, hematology, heterogamy, highwaymen, kerygmatic, legitimacy, manageably, megacycles, menacingly, metagalaxy, metallurgy, mineralogy, mystagogue, nematology, pigmentary, polygamies, polygamize, remarrying, segmentary, shaggymane. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6D 65 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101101 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a m e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006D 0065 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167797191 |
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