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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. suggestive of sexual impropriety;
- Example: "a blue movie"
- Example: "blue jokes"
- Example: "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"
- Example: "a juicy scandal"
- Example: "a naughty wink"
- Example: "naughty words"
- Example: "racy anecdotes"
- Example: "a risque story"
- Example: "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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

gamy \gam"y\, a.
   1. (Cookery) Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept
      uncooked till near the condition of tainting;
      high-flavored.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Sporting) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last;
      plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Same as gamey.
      [PJC] -- gam"i*ness, n.


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gamy
    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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "gamy":
   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