Gamy

Definitions: Gamy

Gamy

Adjective

1. 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.

Date "gamy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

Synonyms: Gamy

Synonyms: blue (adj), game (adj), gamey (adj), gritty (adj), high (adj), juicy (adj), mettlesome (adj), naughty (adj), racy (adj), risque (adj), spicy (adj), spirited (adj), spunky (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pungency	Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .
Taste	Adjective: sapid, saporific; gustable, gustatory; gustful; strong, gamy; palatable .
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gamy

English words defined with "gamy": barred pickerel, blue ♦ Esox americanus ♦ gamey ♦ juicy ♦ naughty ♦ racy, redfin pickerel, risque ♦ spicy. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Suffix Obsession: A Dictionary of All Words Ending in Annual, Ennial, Anthropy, Archy, Cracy, Cide, Culture, Gamy, Gon, Hedron, Lagnia, Latry, Theis (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "gamy": gamy taste. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "gamy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si mish gjahu, i guximshëm (audacious, brave, courageous, Doughty, Hardy, sturdy, valiant). (various references)

Bulgarian		смел (adventurous, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dashing, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, thoroughbred, valiant, venturesome), с миризма на дивеч, леко вмирисан, покварен (corrupt, depraved, godforsaken, graceless, obscene, peccant, scrofulous, vicious, wanton), пикантен (gingery, juicy, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, rich, salacious, salt, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty). (various references)

Czech		kurážný (gammy, plucky, spirited, spunky). (various references)

Farsi		فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), پرازشکار, چاشنی زده , افتضاح اور (Inglorious), بوومزه گوشت شکارکه نزدیک فساداست , باجرات (Courageous, Gritty, Intrepid), بدبو (Frowzy, Reechy, Smelly, Unsavory). (various references)

German		mutig (audacious, bold, brave, bravely, clenched, clenching, courageous, courageously, gallant, gallantly, game, gamely, gamily, gritty, heroic, heroically, manful, manfully, pluckily, plucky, spirited, valiant, valiantly). (various references)

Greek		έτοιμοσ (prepared, ready, stock), θαρραλέοσ (courageous, gritty, plucky, spunky). (various references)

Hungarian		vadban gazdag. (various references)

Italian		gamia, ricco di selvaggina. (various references)

Pig Latin		amygay.(various references)

Portuguese		gama (doe, fallow doe, gamma, gamma ray, gamut, key, scale), valente (brave, courageous, doughy, gallant, game, high-hearted, lionize, manfulness, plug, soldierly, stouthearted, valiant, valorous), que começa a cheirar mal, decidido (crisp, decided, decisive, determinate, determined, forthright, game, gritty, intent, purposive, resolute, resolved, routine, settled, stark, strong, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering), corajoso (adventurous, bold, brave, chivalrous, cool, courageous, fearless, gallant, game, go ahead, hare, high-hearted, high-spirited, intrepidity, lion-hearted, manful, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, resolute, soldierly, spirited, spunky, stout, unshrinking, valiant, Venturous), bravo (brave, bravo, courageous, gallant, thumbs up, valiant), abundante em caça. (various references)

Romanian		viteaz (bold, brave, courageous, gallant, hero, manly, proud, stalwart, temerarious, valiant, valorous, vigorous), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), schilod (cripple, crippled, deformed, disabled, invalid, lame), scandalos (disgraceful, infamous, mouthy, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, shocking, unworthy), pregãtit (done, prepared, ready), dârz (adamant, audacious, daring, resistant, saucy, steadfast, stout, stoutly, strong-minded, stubborn, unflinching), curajos (bold, brave, courageous, daring, Dauntless, gallant, game, gritty, high-spirited, manful, nervy, pluckily, plucky, reckless, spirited, stalwart, stout, temerarious, unflinching, vigorous). (various references)

Russian		с душком, изобилующий дичью. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		s mirisom na divljač. (various references)

Spanish		picante (biting, hot, itchy, juicy, naughty, nutty, peppery, piquancy, piquant, pointed, pungency, pungent, raciness, racy, salty, sharp, spice, spicy), manido (high, stale), abundante de caza. (various references)

Swedish		med viltsmak, käck (bold, brave, dasher, dashing, jaunty, perky, saucy), djärv (audacious, bold, brave, daring, heroic, plucky, undaunted). (various references)

Turkish		gözüpek (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, courageous, dare devil, daring, fearless, gutsy, Hardy, intrepid, nothing if not courageous, stalwart, undaunted, venturesome, Venturous), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), av eti (game, venison). (various references)

Ukranian		сміливий (amazonian, audacious, cant, courageous, daring, game, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spirited, spunky, venturesome), багатий на дичину. (various references)

Vietnamese		gan dạ (brave, gallantly, hardy, intrepid, plucked, plucky, stout-hearted, unshrinking). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "gamy": allogamy, anisogamy, apogamy, autogamy, bigamy, cleistogamy, dichogamy, digamy, endogamy, exogamy, heterogamy, hologamy, homogamy, hypergamy, isogamy, karyogamy, misogamy, monogamy, oogamy, plasmogamy, polygamy, syngamy, xenogamy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gamy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bammy, eamy, Egami, Fahmy, Gacy, Gadya, Gafyn, Galmoy, Gam, gamay, gamb, gami, gamir, gamit, gamm, gammil, gamo, gamr, gamu, Gani, ganie, Ganny, gany, gaom, gasmey, gasy, gaty, gavy, gayi, gazy, gemi, gemy, geny, germy, gham, giam, gify, gimc, gimey, Gimi, gimny, gimu, giny, glammy, gma, gmac, gmat, Gmax, gmi, gommy, gpmu, Gramby, Grami, gramy, gsm, Guami, guany, Guaymi, gumey, gumi, gumie, gwm, gxm, igamy, Ngami, yamy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-m-y"
	-1 letter: gam, gay, gym, mag, may, yam.
	-2 letters: ag, am, ay, ma, my, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-m-y"
	+1 letter: gamay, gamey, gammy, mangy.
	+2 letters: bigamy, digamy, gamays, gamely, gamily, gleamy, maguey, mangey, margay, maying, oogamy, zygoma.
	+3 letters: apogamy, bogyman, exogamy, goombay, gramary, gymnast, imagery, isogamy, kerygma, maggoty, magnify, magueys, mangaby, mangily, margays, mayings, myalgia, myalgic, pygmean, syngamy, yeggman, zygomas.
	+4 letters: agrimony, agronomy, allogamy, almighty, amygdala, amygdale, amygdule, amylogen, autogamy, bogeyman, boogyman, demagogy, embaying, endogamy, ganymede, geomancy, goombays, gramarye, gramercy, graymail, gymkhana, gymnasia, gymnasts, hogmanay, hogmenay, hologamy, homogamy, kerygmas, kymogram, mahogany, malignly, mangabey, marrying, meagerly, meagrely, mealybug, megabyte, megacity, megadyne, misogamy, moneybag, monogamy, myalgias, myograph, mystagog, omophagy, polygamy, pygmaean, quagmiry, syngamic, syntagma, vagotomy, xenogamy, zygomata, zymogram.
	+5 letters: amazingly, ambiguity, amusingly, amygdalae, amygdales, amygdalin, amygdules, amylogens, anisogamy, boogeyman, candygram, chammying, clergyman, cryptogam, damningly, dichogamy, dismaying, flamingly, ganymedes, geminally, germanely, gossamery, gramaryes, graymails, gymkhanas, gymnasium, gymnastic, gynaeceum, gynaecium, hogmanays, hogmenays, hypergamy, imaginary, karyogamy, kerygmata, kymograms, kymograph, logomachy, magically, malignity, mammalogy, mangabeys, martyring, mealybugs, meaningly, megabytes, megacycle, megadynes, migratory, mislaying, missaying, moneybags, monophagy, mycophagy, myographs, mystagogs, mystagogy, nystagmic, nystagmus, polygamic, ramifying, shammying, shamoying, syngamies, syntagmas, yammering, zygomatic, zymograms.
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