gamy


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Synonyms for gamy

suggestive of sexual impropriety

(used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted

willing to face danger

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" Aliya Ashgar, who lives opposite the house, Gamy said: "It was terrible, I was so scared.
Water buffalo milk, the scarcest in this country, lends grassy, tangy, gamy notes to cheeses.
The term "cleistogamy" combines the Greek 'kleistos' meaning 'closed' with 'gamy' meaning 'marriage.' Once fertilization has occurred by means of insects or self-pollination, the seeds are ready for explosive dispersal.
(47.) Jeannel D, Fretz C, Traore Y, Kohdjo N, Bigot A, Gamy E, Pe, Jourdan G, Kourouma K, Maertens G, Fumoux F, Fournel J, Stuyver L.
You've likely heard the horror tales of how rank and gamy antelope can be, and like me, you may have experienced it firsthand.
They want to make and grind koji, the fermentedrice base of sake, to use as a chocolate surrogate for a cake; or anaerobically ferment plums individually encased in a lustrous, thick shell of beeswax; or mummify a deer leg to see if it will taste like Parma ham; or ferment grasshoppers into a version of garum, the gamy fish sauce of the ancients; or whip pig's blood to mimic the foam structure of egg yolks for an ice cream that looks and tastes like chocolate (blood cooks to the same shade of brown).
Steak from grass-fed beef can be dry or gamy, but so can grain-fed beef.
According to Gamy, the industry has great expectations for the FSVP proposed rule, and a more preventive approach to import produce safety would significantly reduce the frequency of product testing at the border, which can cause significant economic losses of perishable commodities.
"The objective of the French decree is to ensure traceability of nanomaterials (and) greater transparency of information available to the public on nanomaterials," said Veronique Gamy, product stewardship director at the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), Brussels, the chemicals sector's main EU trade association.
The expedition endured the miseries of mosquitoes, the dangers of venomous snakes and reptiles and living off the likes of boiled monkey meat - it has a strong gamy flavour apparently and a sickening smell.
I perceived death the way we had perceived movement in all our old walls of dwellings we'd rented, then owned, in old parts of old towns, and then later, the gamy funk of rotting bodies when mice, sick on poison, would slump and decay between embankments of plaster.
In the event those responsible for cooking and preparing the food are less than capable in doing so, and the hamburgers are over- or under-cooked, and the potato salad a bit too gamy, and your resulting upset stomach is further aggravated by a parade of insufferable relatives, bring a sufficient supply of Pepto-Bismol.