gamy adjective: 1. Having the flavor or odor of game, especially game meat. 2. Having the flavor or odor of meat kept until slightly tainted. 3. Ill-smelling; rank. 4. Sordid, seamy, corrupt, or disreputable. 5. Suggestive or racy. 6. Plucky or spirited.
☰Thought of the Day
"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." - John Locke, from Second Treatise of Government Chapter 2, Sect 6.
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