gamy

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}]
    

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

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