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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 indelicacy
Familiarity information: GAMINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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