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gamy, a.|ˈgeɪmɪ|
Also 9 gamey.
[f. game n. + -y1.]
1. Abounding in game. Of a sportsman: Bent upon game.
1848Blackw. Mag. LXIV. 170 The keen sportsman..will find abundant pastime and recreation in so gamy a land as this. 1863Pilgr. over Prairies I. 14 An individual..whose..weather-stained red coat, and gamy cast of eye, seemed to bespeak a huntsman. 1892Field 10 Dec. 883/3 Any gamey or rabbity district.
2. Spirited, plucky: showing fight to the last.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xi, ‘Well..wot if I am [shot]; there's something gamey in it, young ladies, ain't there?’ 1867F. H. Ludlow Fleeing to Tarshish 142 Mounted on a gamy thoroughbred. 1881Century Mag. XXIII. 45/1, I crept out of the fortress with half a dozen stalwart and gamy U.S. regulars at my heels. 1883Ibid. XXVI. 383/2 The artificial fly alone should be used to lure the gamy bass.
3. Having the flavour of game that has been kept till it is ‘high’.
1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 267 Nothing approaches the parts most relished by the natives in richness of flavour and racy, gamey taste. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xi, The haunch of mutton vapour-bath having received a gamey infusion. 1884R. Walker Five Threes 59 The latter [a kangaroo] being rather gamey, the effects were counteracted by having a pocket full of orange blossom.
fig.18..Lowell FitzAdam's Story Poet. Wks. 1890 IV. 225 His language, wherethrough ran The gamy flavor of the bookless man.
Add:4. Racy, spicy, salacious; scandalous, disreputable. Chiefly U.S.
a1961Webster s.v., Skips the asterisks and gives you the gamy details. 1969Listener 13 Nov. 658/1 We have been..told that anybody wanting anything a bit more gamey than the present prescribed diet on radio is suffering from intellectual snobbery. 1976New Yorker 22 Mar. 116/3 Newport strip shows tend to be gamier than what is normally allowed in Cincinnatti. 1982D. DeLillo Names (1983) iii. 64 The gamier the place, or the more ticklish politically,..they sweeten the pot, our New York masters. 1987Newsweek 18 May 14/3 Broadhurst is a veteran player in Louisiana's gamey politics.
Hence ˈgaminess n.
1893Farmer & Henley Slang III. 111/1 Gaminess, the malodorousness proceeding from decay and—by implication—filthiness. 1987R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde v. 135 Charmides' love for a statue and the nymph's for a corpse, lend the poem a certain gaminess. |