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GA, NY - home of ATL and NYY respectively in MLB
wofahulicodoc
07/27/2026 2:33 AM
GAMY or GAMEY
PRONUNCIATION: (GAY-mee)
MEANING: 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.
ETYMOLOGY: From game (wild animals hunted for food or sport; fighting spirit). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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GAMMY - affectionate nickname for the mother of either of my parents
GUAMY - like the US Territory in the Pacific, largest and southernmost of the Marianas Islands, about 1500 miles south of Japan
GAPEY - like the dentition of seven-year-old who is missing the central upper incisors
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Re: Common long words
wofahulicodoc
07/26/2026 8:16 PM
And then there are Stanley Kunitz' self-reported "favorite" words:
"eleëmosynary" and
"phantasmagorical"
A friend of his made a documentary movie about him - I don't know whether it was ever released to the general public - and posed the question to him. They sound different as he uttered them.
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