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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
2: (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted [syn: gamey, gamy, high]
3: willing to face danger [syn: game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky]

Merriam Webster's

or gamey adjective (gamier; -est) Date: 1844 1. brave, plucky — used especially of animals 2. a. having the flavor of game; especially having the flavor of game near tainting b. smelly 3. a. sordid, scandalous <gave us all the gamy details> b. corrupt, disreputable <a gamy character> c. sexually suggestive ; racy <gamy witticisms> • gamily adverb • gaminess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (gamier, gamiest) 1 having the flavour or scent of game kept till it is high. 2 US scandalous, sensational. 3 = GAME(1) adj. Derivatives: gamily adv. gaminess n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gamy Gam"y, a. 1. (Cookery) Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored. 2. (Sporting) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. High, almost tainted, high-flavored.

Moby Thesaurus

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