Literary notes about GAMY (AI summary)
In literature the term "gamy" is often employed as an adjective to evoke a sense of wild, robust flavor or appearance, particularly in references to meat and fish. It frequently describes the distinctive, sometimes intense flavor associated with wild or older meats, as seen when meats are characterized as having a slight tang of decomposition ([1], [2], [3]). Moreover, the word is applied to animals and game fish to suggest not only culinary qualities but also a rugged, unrefined character, whether noting the muscular, wild nature of fish ([4], [5], [6]) or even in more figurative depictions of persons and creatures imbued with a rustic or primitive aura ([7], [8]). This varied usage highlights "gamy" as a versatile descriptor that conveys both sensory and metaphorical elements of natural, untamed qualities.
- The gamy flavour of meats is nothing more than incipient decomposition.
— from The Story of Germ Life by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn - It tasted much like pork, with a more gamy flavour.
— from Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Francis Buckley - Their flesh is dark, and the flavor is very distinctly gamy, and is generally regarded as excellent.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway - Within the period named—June to the middle of August—salmon are gamy and muscular, wherever found, whether one or fifty miles from the ocean.
— from The Galaxy, June 1877Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various - It is a gamy fish and full of fight to the finish.
— from Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Harry Thom Payne - Like all of the family it is a gamy fish, and affords good sport to the angler.
— from Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Harry Thom Payne - “Come on quick,” said Johannes, “I will show you a gamy man.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack - Unlike Williams, he thought it perfectly feasible, and rather a neat, gamy thing for a youngster to do.
— from Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears
