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GAMINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaminess mean? 

GAMINESS (noun)
  The noun GAMINESS has 1 sense:

1. behavior or language bordering on indelicacyplay

  Familiarity information: GAMINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GAMINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gaminess; raciness; ribaldry; spiciness

Hypernyms ("gaminess" is a kind of...):

indelicacy (the trait of being indelicate and offensive)

Derivation:

gamy (suggestive of sexual impropriety)


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