gameyadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡeɪmi/, U.S.

/ˈɡeɪmi/

Forms: 1800s– gamey, 1800s– gamy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: game n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < game n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Designating the characteristically strong flavour or smell of game that has been kept till it is slightly decomposed (and so ready to cook) (cf. high adj. 12d); having this flavour or smell; (sometimes more generally) having a strong or rank flavour or smell, highly or strongly flavoured.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > strong-tasting

strongeOE

stithc1000

violenta1398

tartc1405

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high?c1430

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haut-goût1645

full-flavoured1736

lively1770

gamey1820

ory1854

zestful?1855

robust1873

tangy1875

stewy1895

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective] > descriptive of odours

stithc1000

violenta1398

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valiant1607

warm1720

gamey1820

weak1854

blazing1875

1820 ‘G. di Castel Chiuso’ Sketches St. George's Fields vi. 145 Pastilles after dinner in a room, Whose potent gas at once the weaker smells Of fishy or of gamey taint expels.

1837 Mag. Domest. Econ. Nov. 152 The best wild ducks are those from the Fens of Lincolnshire... They..are of a fine, rich, gamey flavour.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 102 The haunch of mutton vapour-bath having received a gamey infusion.

1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) viii. 118 Bacteria are found in all moist foods... Any meat which develops the gamy flavor is filled with them.

1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes i. 17 My Montgomery sweater..suddenly smelled all rank and gamey and wonderful the way the varsity guys always did.

2002 J. Harris & F. Warde French Kitchen 116 (caption) Pigeon meat is tender and only slightly gamey, and the peas give it a succulent sweetness.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1867 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 28 His language, wherethrough ran The gamy flavor of the bookless man.

1895 F. Hellman tr. A. Leroy-Beaulieu Israel among Nations x. 266 Our modern literature..has..too often a gamey flavour, a musty, sickening odour of decay.

1911 G. S. Hall Educ. Probl. II. ix. 1 Her [sc. a girl's] real nature is wild with a charming, gamey flavor.

1962 Light (San Antonio, Texas) 5 July Last Monday's mail brought a stark revelation, laced..with the gamey tang of press agentry.

2003 E. Sheffield Gone 12 Only then will you come to appreciate the rich and faintly gamy flavor of farm life.

c. Chiefly U.S. Racy, spicy, salacious; scandalous, disreputable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adjective] > scandalous

scandalousa1616

ridiculous1832

gamey1945

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective]

unhonest13..

inhonest1340

undecent1563

broad1579

nasty1601

indecent1613

paw1668

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improper1739

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off-colour1875

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suggestive1888

scorching1890

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gamey1945

1945 Billboard 6 Jan. 3/3 His material..will never draw the blue pencil. At home we might think that ‘Not all girls neck in cars. Yeah, I know the woods are full of them’ is gamey or corny. Here it's a wow.

1969 Listener 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.

1976 New Yorker 22 Mar. 116/3 Newport strip shows tend to be gamier than what is normally allowed in Cincinnati.

1987 Newsweek 18 May 14/3 Broadhurst is a veteran player in Louisiana's gamey politics.

2005 New Yorker 28 Mar. 83/3 The film..has a gamy, ill-lit seediness.

2. gen. Characteristic of game; suggestive or reminiscent of game. Now rare.In quot. 1843: (perhaps) characteristic of a game.

ΚΠ

1839 Bengal Sporting Mag. Nov. 360 The rain quail..is a most gamy thing to look at, but of an indifferent scent.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 142 Well..wot if I am [shot]? There's something gamey in it, young ladies, an't there?

1851 F. A. Neale Eight Years Syria, Palestine, & Asia Minor I. iv. 57 I was guided by the gamy sound of their [sc. partridges'] voices to where this covey was enjoying the cool early morning.

1903 H. Maxwell Memories of Months 3rd Ser. xliv. 258 They [sc. fieldfares] have a far more gamey appearance on the wing than any other of the British thrushes.

3. Of an area of land: abounding in game; well stocked with game.In quot. 1863: (apparently) indicative of an interest in or concern with game.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [adjective]

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Nimrodian1631

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sporting1679

gameful1704

Nimrodical1796

Nimrodic1816

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venatoriala1881

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [adjective] > abounding in game

grousy1830

gamey1848

gameful1871

1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 170 The keen sportsman..will find abundant pastime and recreation in so gamy a land as this.

1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 14 An individual..whose..weather-stained red coat, and gamy cast of eye, seemed to bespeak a huntsman.

1908 A. S. Mather Let. in Extracts Lett. (1910) I. 217 Kumane is said to be very wild and very gamey.

1956 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 25 July 7/3 (advt.) Hunting and recreational privileges on over 400 acres of real gamey woods and fields.

1992 D. Bowring Bowhunting for Whitetails ii. 20 Intelligent, complete scouting..gives the hunter, once a gamey area is located and scouted, a real break.

4. Showing or characterized by spirit or pluck; = game adj.¹ 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adjective]

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gutty1953

1849 Emancipator & Republican (Boston) 15 Feb. [He] owes his promotion to his most undoubted ‘pluck’, to his display of ‘gamey’ qualities in the Mexican war.

1855 Notts. Guardian 12 Apr. 7/5 No fence was e'er too big for you, no pace was e'er too fast. A gamy girl!

1881 Cent. Mag. 23 45/1 I crept out of the fortress with half a dozen stalwart and gamy U.S. regulars at my heels.

1913 J. J. Underwood Alaska xv. 196 It [sc. kelpfish] is a gamey fish and offers much more sport than that which can be derived from lugging sluggish halibut and cod from great depths.

1992 J. Crace Arcadia iii. v. 233 No doubt she bubbled; it did not take much drink to make her gamey.

2011 M. Moseley When Sparrows Fall 66 In a brown parka and worn jeans,..she dodged puddles in a gamey, cheerful way that made Miranda smile.

Derivatives

ˈgaminess n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > scandal or disrepute

gaminess1854

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun]

inhonesty1481

scandal1622

nastiness1650

fulsomeness1684

indecency1692

impropriety1751

blue1824

paw-pawness1828

blueness1833

gaminess1854

suggestiveness1888

purple1930

1854 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 11 Nov. 309/2 The very house-doors manifest the gaminess of Raisinland, by hanging out inviting bell-pulls made of roe-deer's feet and ankles.

1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 111/1 Gaminess, the malodorousness proceeding from decay and—by implication—filthiness.

1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde v. 135 Charmides' love for a statue and the nymph's for a corpse, lend the poem a certain gaminess.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Apr. (Travel section) 11/2 Tender wild boar in ‘dolceforte’ is a harmonious blend of sweetness and pungent gaminess.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gamey
释义	gameyadj. Brit. /ˈɡeɪmi/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪmi/ Forms: 1800s– gamey, 1800s– gamy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: game n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < game n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Designating the characteristically strong flavour or smell of game that has been kept till it is slightly decomposed (and so ready to cook) (cf. high adj. 12d); having this flavour or smell; (sometimes more generally) having a strong or rank flavour or smell, highly or strongly flavoured. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > strong-tasting strongeOE stithc1000 violenta1398 tartc1405 froughc1420 high?c1430 lecherous1474 strong1588 brusque1601 valiant1607 pertish1635 haut-goût1645 full-flavoured1736 lively1770 gamey1820 ory1854 zestful?1855 robust1873 tangy1875 stewy1895 the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective] > descriptive of odours stithc1000 violenta1398 hot1595 valiant1607 warm1720 gamey1820 weak1854 blazing1875 1820 ‘G. di Castel Chiuso’ Sketches St. George's Fields vi. 145 Pastilles after dinner in a room, Whose potent gas at once the weaker smells Of fishy or of gamey taint expels. 1837 Mag. Domest. Econ. Nov. 152 The best wild ducks are those from the Fens of Lincolnshire... They..are of a fine, rich, gamey flavour. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 102 The haunch of mutton vapour-bath having received a gamey infusion. 1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) viii. 118 Bacteria are found in all moist foods... Any meat which develops the gamy flavor is filled with them. 1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes i. 17 My Montgomery sweater..suddenly smelled all rank and gamey and wonderful the way the varsity guys always did. 2002 J. Harris & F. Warde French Kitchen 116 (caption) Pigeon meat is tender and only slightly gamey, and the peas give it a succulent sweetness. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1867 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 28 His language, wherethrough ran The gamy flavor of the bookless man. 1895 F. Hellman tr. A. Leroy-Beaulieu Israel among Nations x. 266 Our modern literature..has..too often a gamey flavour, a musty, sickening odour of decay. 1911 G. S. Hall Educ. Probl. II. ix. 1 Her [sc. a girl's] real nature is wild with a charming, gamey flavor. 1962 Light (San Antonio, Texas) 5 July Last Monday's mail brought a stark revelation, laced..with the gamey tang of press agentry. 2003 E. Sheffield Gone 12 Only then will you come to appreciate the rich and faintly gamy flavor of farm life. c. Chiefly U.S. Racy, spicy, salacious; scandalous, disreputable. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adjective] > scandalous scandalousa1616 ridiculous1832 gamey1945 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] unhonest13.. inhonest1340 undecent1563 broad1579 nasty1601 indecent1613 paw1668 paw-paw1723 improper1739 unproper1797 fie-fie1812 warm1814 blue1818 indecorous1829 off-colour1875 sultry1887 suggestive1888 scorching1890 juicy1923 gamey1945 1945 Billboard 6 Jan. 3/3 His material..will never draw the blue pencil. At home we might think that ‘Not all girls neck in cars. Yeah, I know the woods are full of them’ is gamey or corny. Here it's a wow. 1969 Listener 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. 1976 New Yorker 22 Mar. 116/3 Newport strip shows tend to be gamier than what is normally allowed in Cincinnati. 1987 Newsweek 18 May 14/3 Broadhurst is a veteran player in Louisiana's gamey politics. 2005 New Yorker 28 Mar. 83/3 The film..has a gamy, ill-lit seediness. 2. gen. Characteristic of game; suggestive or reminiscent of game. Now rare.In quot. 1843: (perhaps) characteristic of a game. ΚΠ 1839 Bengal Sporting Mag. Nov. 360 The rain quail..is a most gamy thing to look at, but of an indifferent scent. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 142 Well..wot if I am [shot]? There's something gamey in it, young ladies, an't there? 1851 F. A. Neale Eight Years Syria, Palestine, & Asia Minor I. iv. 57 I was guided by the gamy sound of their [sc. partridges'] voices to where this covey was enjoying the cool early morning. 1903 H. Maxwell Memories of Months 3rd Ser. xliv. 258 They [sc. fieldfares] have a far more gamey appearance on the wing than any other of the British thrushes. 3. Of an area of land: abounding in game; well stocked with game.In quot. 1863: (apparently) indicative of an interest in or concern with game. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [adjective] huntinga1340 Nimrodian1631 venatious1660 venaticala1666 sporting1679 gameful1704 Nimrodical1796 Nimrodic1816 venatory1837 theriomaniac1845 gamey1848 venatoriala1881 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [adjective] > abounding in game grousy1830 gamey1848 gameful1871 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 170 The keen sportsman..will find abundant pastime and recreation in so gamy a land as this. 1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 14 An individual..whose..weather-stained red coat, and gamy cast of eye, seemed to bespeak a huntsman. 1908 A. S. Mather Let. in Extracts Lett. (1910) I. 217 Kumane is said to be very wild and very gamey. 1956 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 25 July 7/3 (advt.) Hunting and recreational privileges on over 400 acres of real gamey woods and fields. 1992 D. Bowring Bowhunting for Whitetails ii. 20 Intelligent, complete scouting..gives the hunter, once a gamey area is located and scouted, a real break. 4. Showing or characterized by spirit or pluck; = game adj.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adjective] braga1350 animose?a1425 heartlya1450 stomachous1547 bold-spirited1597 mettled1599 mettle1606 animous1609 stomachful1610 stomachious1611 brave-spiriteda1617 mettlesome1673 game1752 spunky1786 spunk1788 gamelike1804 good-woolled1846 plucked1846 bold-hearted1847 gamey1849 gameful1853 gutsy1893 feisty1896 gutty1953 1849 Emancipator & Republican (Boston) 15 Feb. [He] owes his promotion to his most undoubted ‘pluck’, to his display of ‘gamey’ qualities in the Mexican war. 1855 Notts. Guardian 12 Apr. 7/5 No fence was e'er too big for you, no pace was e'er too fast. A gamy girl! 1881 Cent. Mag. 23 45/1 I crept out of the fortress with half a dozen stalwart and gamy U.S. regulars at my heels. 1913 J. J. Underwood Alaska xv. 196 It [sc. kelpfish] is a gamey fish and offers much more sport than that which can be derived from lugging sluggish halibut and cod from great depths. 1992 J. Crace Arcadia iii. v. 233 No doubt she bubbled; it did not take much drink to make her gamey. 2011 M. Moseley When Sparrows Fall 66 In a brown parka and worn jeans,..she dodged puddles in a gamey, cheerful way that made Miranda smile. Derivatives ˈgaminess n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > scandal or disrepute gaminess1854 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] inhonesty1481 scandal1622 nastiness1650 fulsomeness1684 indecency1692 impropriety1751 blue1824 paw-pawness1828 blueness1833 gaminess1854 suggestiveness1888 purple1930 1854 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 11 Nov. 309/2 The very house-doors manifest the gaminess of Raisinland, by hanging out inviting bell-pulls made of roe-deer's feet and ankles. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 111/1 Gaminess, the malodorousness proceeding from decay and—by implication—filthiness. 1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde v. 135 Charmides' love for a statue and the nymph's for a corpse, lend the poem a certain gaminess. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Apr. (Travel section) 11/2 Tender wild boar in ‘dolceforte’ is a harmonious blend of sweetness and pungent gaminess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1820
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