gamy
Strong, like venison
Gamy describes meat with a strong, distinctive flavor—the taste of wild animals like venison or pheasant rather than farm-raised beef or chicken.
The flavor comes from the animal's diet and lifestyle.
Extended to other contexts, gamy suggests something pungent, rank, or slightly off: The locker room had a gamy smell.
Also spelled gamey.
Flesh of cervids
- pheasantLarge ornamental game bird
- wild boarUndomesticated pig species
- duckWaterbird that quacks
- muttonAdult sheep flesh
goat · hare · grouse · quail · partridge · wildfowl · funky · pungent
Hunted animals as food
- huntedSought to capture
- foragedSought wild food
- free-rangeNot confined to enclosure
- uncagedReleased from captivity
feral · woodland · forest · wild-caught · quarry · prey · stalked · trapped
Meant to provoke response
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
- suggestiveHinting at impropriety
- racyMildly indecent in content
bawdy · ribald · off-color · titillating · naughty · spicy · indecent · lewd
venison
Flesh of cervids
mutton · goat · hare · grouse · quail · partridge · wildfowl · funky · pungent · musky
wild game
Hunted animals as food
- huntedSought to capture
- foragedSought wild food
- free-rangeNot confined to enclosure
uncaged · feral · woodland · forest · wild-caught · quarry · prey · stalked · trapped · snared
provocative
Meant to provoke response
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
- suggestiveHinting at impropriety
racy · bawdy · ribald · off-color · titillating · naughty · spicy · indecent · lewd · raunchy
musky
Having animal-derived odor
off · funky · strong · odorous · fetid · malodorous · high · rancid · stinky · redolent
plucky
Courageous despite disadvantage
scrappy · mettlesome · game · willing · bold · undaunted · determined · tenacious · resolute · courageous
- Stinksbody odor, skunk, rotten eggs, sewage, garbage smell
- off-flavorsrancid, spoiled, sour, skunking, rotten
polygamy, bigamy, gamey, monogamy, monogamous, polygamous, exogamy, gamelike, gaminess